FROM TEXT TO LITERATURE: NEW ANALYTIC AND PRAGMATIC APPROACHES; ED. BY STEIN HAUGOM OLSEN

The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature 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 that arise when these concepts are employed as theoretical instruments for describing and analyzing the phenomenon of literature. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Notes on the Contributors......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction......Page 12 I. Literature as a social institution: the sociological perspective......Page 22 II. The institution theory of art......Page 25 III. An institutional account of literature......Page 30 IV. Objections to the institutional account of literature......Page 32 V. The theory of multiple interpretative communities......Page 38 VI. Conclusion......Page 42 II. Conceptual priorities: art and the aesthetic......Page 47 III. Concepts aesthetic......Page 48 IV. Aesthetic value and the definition of literature......Page 56 I. Introduction......Page 63 II. The concept of art......Page 64 III. The concept of literature......Page 73 I. Introduction......Page 93 II. Literariness and fictionality......Page 95 III. Truman Capote's account of a multiple murder......Page 99 IV. Components of literariness 1: expressiveness......Page 101 V. Components of literariness 2: representativity......Page 103 VI. Components of literariness 3: form......Page 107 VII. The role of fictionality......Page 109 VIII. Towards a more comprehensive understanding......Page 111 I. Introduction......Page 117 II. The everyday concept of literature......Page 119 III. Specialized concepts of literature......Page 121 IV. Attempts at defining 'literature'......Page 124 V. The concept's critics......Page 129 VI. An evaluation of the concept of literature......Page 132 I. Some terminological considerations......Page 139 II. From oral to digital texts: on textualization and textual scholarship......Page 140 III. The rise and fall of textualism in the humanities, especially literary studies......Page 144 IV. The textual aspect of literary studies today......Page 151 I. Introduction......Page 157 II. Experience in Dewey and James......Page 158 III. The structure of a literary experience......Page 164 IV. Experiencing The Portrait of a Lady......Page 165 I. Introduction......Page 176 II. Poetry, truth – and a little bit more......Page 178 III. The enlightenment of concepts......Page 179 IV. The aesthetic paradox and the concept of taste......Page 181 V. Geometric poetics......Page 182 VI. Sensate cognition......Page 184 VII. The rules for attaining perfect sensate discourse......Page 185 VIII. Aesthetics as epistemology......Page 187 IX. Sensuousness, aesthetic analysis, and things in themselves......Page 189 X. Kant and Baumgarten......Page 190 XI. Emotive and cognitive language......Page 191 XII. A belletristic concept of literature......Page 193 Bibliography......Page 198 E......Page 214 L......Page 215 P......Page 216 Y......Page 217 Though The Concepts Of Literature And Of A Literary Work Are Fundamental In Literary Criticism, Literary Theory And Literary Aesthetics, There Has Up To Now Existed No Sustained Analysis Of These Concepts Themselves And Of How They Govern Our Thinking About The Phenomenon Of Literature. The Articles In This Collection Represent An Attempt To Remedy This Situation By Focusing Attention On The Concept Of Literature And On The Relationship It Shares With The Concepts Of A Literary Work And A Literary Text. Adopting An Analytic Approach, The Articles Explore Both: How These Concepts Can Be Turned Into Fruitful Analytical Tools; And The Issues That Arise When These Concepts Are Employed As Theoretical Instruments For Describing And Analysing The Phenomenon Of Literature.--jacket. Introduction / Stein Haugom Olsen, Anders Pettersson -- The Concept Of Literature: An Institutional Account / Stein Haugom Olsen -- Aesthetic Experience And A Belletristic Definition Of Literature / Paisley Livingston -- Art, Literature And Value / Lars-olof Åhlberg -- Components Of Literariness: Readings Of Capote's In Cold Blood / Torsten Pettersson -- The Concept Of Literature: A Description And An Evaluation / Anders Pettersson -- Literature As A Textualist Notion / Bo Pettersson -- The Literary Work As Pragmatist Experience / Erik Bjerck Hagen -- The Poem As Perfect Sensate Discourse: Literature And Cognition According To Baumgarten / Søren Kjørup. Edited By Stein Haugom Olsen And Anders Pettersson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 187-202) And Index. 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.