The Literary Work of Art

An essay revisiting Roman Ingarden’s The Literary Work of Art (1931) to extract the idea of 'noemata' or intellectual schema in works of art that signal the presence of a more archaic figure – the Aristotelean notion of autonomous 'ideal concepts' as content for intellection itself. Ingarden’s recourse to a poetics versus a form of structuralism spared the work of art (literary and otherwise) from reduction to pure phenomenological spectrality