Pettersson The Concept of Literary Application

Readers' Analogies from Text to Life
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-03542-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten, eBook

Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it – an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism is of profound importance for the understanding of literary art and experience.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettersson, Anders

Pettersson, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements The Application of Literature to Life Examples of Application Application and the Act of Reading Literature and Cognitive Enrichment Transportation and Empathy Simulation and Identification The Aesthetic Approach to Literature Conceptions of the Text Literary Practice The Concept of Literature Questions of Norms and Values A Final Look at Application Appendix Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ANDERS PETTERSSON is Emeritus Professor of Swedish and Comparative Literature at Umeå University, Sweden, and has published widely on fundamental literary theory and transcultural literary history. Among his monographs and edited collections are Verbal Art: A Philosophy of Literature and Literary Experience (2000) and Notions of Literature across Times and Cultures (2006; editor).