From Text to Literature New Analytic and Pragmatic Approaches [Hardcover]

The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text. Adopting an analytic approach, the articles attempt to clarify how these concepts govern our thinking about the phenomenon of literature in various ways, exploring the issues which arise when these concepts are employed as theoretical instruments for describing and analyzing the phenomenon of literature.Introduction; S.H.Olsen & A.Pettersson The Concept of Literature: An Institutional Account; S.H.Olsen Aesthetic Experience and a Belletristic Definition of Literature; P.Livingston Art, Literature and Value; L.Ahlberg Components of Literariness-Readings of Capote's In Cold Blood ; T.Pettersson The Concept of Literature: A Description and an Evaluation; A.Pettersson Literature as a Textualist Notion; B.Pettersson The Literary Work as Pragmatist Experience; E.B.Hagen The Poem as Perfect Sensate Discourse: Literature and Cognition According to Baumgarten; S.Kjorup BibliographyERIK BJERCK HAGEN Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, NORWAYSOREN KJORUP Professor of Theory and History of the Humanities, Roskilde University, DENMARKPAISLEY LIVINGSTON Professor of Philosophy, Lingnan University, HONG KONGBO PETTERSSON Professor of Swedish and Comparative Literature, Umea University, SWEDENTORSTEN PETTERSSON Professor of Literature, Uppsala University, SWEDENLARS-OLOF AHLBERG Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, SWEDEN