Ingarden and the Sense of Resolution
Roman Ingarden [Ing73] developed Aristotle's concept that a literary work of art has at least 4 layers sound sense (meaning of propositions) schematized aspects (which occur in a definite sequence correlated with sentences) represented objectivities (based, unlike real world things, on limited verifiable information) Furthermore he thought the work composed of an infinite number of Unbestimmtheiststellen (indetermination spots). Individual concretizations (readings) only partly remove these places of indeterminacy, so that different concretizations remained possible. Ingarden's work was phenomenologically based, with few poetry examples. He assumed [Ing73, p.40] that "the literary work is conceived as a purely intentional product of the subjective, creative processes of its author." Since then other literary approaches have found favour and experimental psychologists have studied the reading process more deeply. Although they seldom use poetry texts, much of...