Translators' Introduction

Introduction
§ 1. The area of investigation
§ 2. Preliminary sketch of the problem
§ 3. Adaptation of cognition to the basic structure of the object of cognition
§ 4. Basic assertions about the essential structure of the literary work of art
§ 5. The literary work as fixed in writing
§ 6. Delimitation of the topic and first basic theses

1. The Processes Entering into the Cognition of the Literary Work of Art
§ 7. Apprehension of the written signs and verbal sounds
§ 8. Understanding verbal and sentence meanings
§ 9. Passive and active reading
§ 10. Objectification as the transition from the intentional states of affairs to the objects portrayed in the literary work
§ 11. Concretization fo the portrayed objectivities
§ 12. Actualization and concretization of the aspects
§ 13. Peculiarity of understanding the literary work of art as a poetical work
§ 13a. The combination of all the strata of the work into a whole and the apprehension of its idea
§ 14. Influence of the composite nature of the apprehension of the literary work of art on the form of its concretization

2. Temporal Perspective in the Concretization of the Literary Work of Art
§ 15. The structure of the sequence of parts in the work
§ 16. Becoming acquainted with the literary work of art during reading
§ 17. The phenomena of "temporal perspective"
§ 18. Temporal perspective in the concretization of the ilterary work of art
§ 19. Cognition of the literary work of art after reading

3. Remarks on the Cognition of the Scientific Work
§ 20. On the difference between the scientific work and the literary work of art
§ 21. The understanding of the scientific work and the perceptive apprehending of the literary work of art

4. Varieties of the Cognition of the Literary Work of Art
§ 22. Outlook on further problems
§ 23. On various attitudes in the cognition of the literary work of art
§ 24. The aesthetic experience and the aesthetic object
§ 25. Is there a specifically "literary" experience or does it belong to the aesthetic experiences?
§ 26. Some observations on literary aesthetic experiences
§ 27. The preaesthetic investigation of the literary work of art
§ 28. The reflective cognition of the aesthetic concretization of the literary work of art
§ 29. The difference between the aesthetic experience of the literary work of art and the reflective cognition of its aesthetic concretization

5. Outlook on Some Problems for the Critical Consideration of Knowledge about the Literary Work of Art
§ 30. Introductory remarks
§ 31. Problems for the critique of knoweldge of the preaesthetic reflective cognition of the literary work of art
§ 32. Some problems for the critique of knowledge of the aesthetic experience
§ 33. Some epistemological problems in the cognition of the aesthetic concretization of the literary work of art

Afterword
Index