Käte Hamburgers Theorie der Dichtungsgattungen : die theoretischen Grundlagen der "Logik der Dichtung"

Vasić Daki, Marija Zulja The words crucial to this work, which give information about Käte Hamburgers theory of the literary genres are: exactness, thinker, reality, theory of language, modelling of statements, fiction, tense of verbs, narrator, experience, and new question. If one tries to determine what the basics of “The Logic of Literatureâ are by using this keywords, the result is that it can be denoted as based on philosophy. “The Logic of Literatureâ , Käte Hamburgers main work in literary theory, with its first edition of 1957 being dedicated to Thomas Mann, was published again in 1968 in a very different edition. The third and fourth editions remain unchanged. “The Logic of Literatureâ is theory - created by an academic who questions the literary reality and sets free the fantasy to change it. “The Logic of Literatureâ is technique - a complicated instrument whose handling lays bare the “poetrys mode of existenceâ . To understand “The Logic of Literatureâ means to classify all aspects of the philological medium and their relations to each other. What is “The Logic of Literatureâ ? The new question - is the answer which is explained in the concluding remarks of this work. As this new question is, seen philologically, of such a power, it was very complicated for some members of the community of literary studies to realise it at all. The richness of literature and life is reflected in “The Logic of Literatureâ , in its acquisition, further research and re-organisation.