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Originally Posted by TimMason
He seems to be forgetting something; does he talk about typesetting, calligraphy, space on the page? As the Chinese or Japanese will tell you, these are an integral and an important aspect of the literary work. Or just visit this site. |
One of the criticisms that can rightly be made of Ingarden is that his theory is limited by his exposure to European literature of a certain historical period. Not only does this lead him down a path of ignoring other world literatures, but also leads him to derive a normative literary aesthetics which cannot account for much in western literary fiction of the latter half of the twentieth century. Notwithstanding that he does provide a framework, a starting point, for thinking about the cognitive operations involved in making meaning in a literary context and asks very sensible questions about the status of the objects that appear in literary works and our cognition of them.