On Literature as an Art Form and its Ways

Peng Feng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2013, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3) : 48-54.

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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2013, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3) : 48-54.
Studies in Aesthetics and Literary Theory

On Literature as an Art Form and its Ways

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This paper argues that literature is an art form and proposes three ways to approach the issue. The issue is then rephrased as three views of literariness: the formalist, the ontological and the procedural. The formalist view claims that the literariness exists in special linguistic and narrative features, such as defamiliarization. The ontological view emphasizes on a certain form of existence of the text and takes a literary work as a pure intentional object. The procedural view asserts that literariness exists in the appropriate attitude of reading as a result of long-term literature education.

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literariness / formalism / ontology of art works / procedural definition

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