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The Concept of Literary Application: Readers' Analogies from Text to Life
Anders Pettersson
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Description for The Concept of Literary Application: Readers' Analogies from Text to Life
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137035417
SKU
V9781137035417
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99-15
About Anders Pettersson
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).
Reviews for The Concept of Literary Application: Readers' Analogies from Text to Life
"In this lucid and insightful book, Anders Pettersson argues that using fiction to understand life ('application') is a deeply important part of literary experience. He goes on to provide a thought-provoking explanation of why and how this is the case. This nuanced theoretical work - one of the best I have read in years - will be of great interest ... Read more