Abstract
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.
First Page
48
Last Page
54
Recommended Citation
Peng, Feng. 2013. "On Literature as an Art Form and its Ways." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (3): pp.48-54. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss3/15
