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 1 Contents 6 Notes on the Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 12 1 The Concept of Literature: an Institutional Account 22 I. Literature as a social institution: the sociological perspective 22 II. The institution theory of art 25 III. An institutional account of literature 30 IV. Objections to the institutional account of literature 32 V. The theory of multiple interpretative communities 38 VI. Conclusion 42 2 Aesthetic Experience and a Belletristic Definition of Literature 47 I. Introduction 47 II. Conceptual priorities: art and the aesthetic 47 III. Concepts aesthetic 48 IV. Aesthetic value and the definition of literature 56 3 Art, Literature and Value 63 I. Introduction 63 II. The concept of art 64 III. The concept of literature 73 4 Components of Literariness: Readings of Capote's In Cold Blood 93 I. Introduction 93 II. Literariness and fictionality 95 III. Truman Capote's account of a multiple murder 99 IV. Components of literariness 1: expressiveness 101 V. Components of literariness 2: representativity 103 VI. Components of literariness 3: form 107 VII. The role of fictionality 109 VIII. Towards a more comprehensive understanding 111 5 The Concept of Literature: a Description and an Evaluation 117 I. Introduction 117 II. The everyday concept of literature 119 III. Specialized concepts of literature 121 IV. Attempts at defining 'literature' 124 V. The concept's critics 129 VI. An evaluation of the concept of literature 132 6 Literature as a Textualist Notion 139 I. Some terminological considerations 139 II. From oral to digital texts: on textualization and textual scholarship 140 III. The rise and fall of textualism in the humanities, especially literary studies 144 IV. The textual aspect of literary studies today 151 7 The Literary Work as Pragmatist Experience 157 I. Introduction 157 II. Experience in Dewey and James 158 III. The structure of a literary experience 164 IV. Experiencing The Portrait of a Lady 165 8 The Poem as Perfect Sensate Discourse: Literature and Cognition According to Baumgarten 176 I. Introduction 176 II. Poetry, truth – and a little bit more 178 III. The enlightenment of concepts 179 IV. The aesthetic paradox and the concept of taste 181 V. Geometric poetics 182 VI. Sensate cognition 184 VII. The rules for attaining perfect sensate discourse 185 VIII. Aesthetics as epistemology 187 IX. Sensuousness, aesthetic analysis, and things in themselves 189 X. Kant and Baumgarten 190 XI. Emotive and cognitive language 191 XII. A belletristic concept of literature 193 Bibliography 198 Index 214 A 214 B 214 C 214 D 214 E 214 F 215 G 215 H 215 I 215 J 215 K 215 L 215 M 216 N 216 O 216 P 216 Q 217 R 217 S 217 T 217 U 217 V 217 W 217 Y 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.