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.
Table of Content
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
About the author
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).
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