Overview

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.

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Author:   S. Olsen ,  A. Pettersson
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2005 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781403993328

ISBN 10:   1403993327
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   17 August 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Bibliography

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STEIN HAUGOM OLSEN is currently Chair Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. From 1985 to 1997 he was Chair and Professor of British Civilization Studies at the University of Oslo. ANDERS PETTERSSON is Professor of Swedish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Comparative Literature, Umea University, Sweden, and a member of the executive board of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM).

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