From Text to Literature

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Stein Haugom Olsen, Anders Pettersson

   Pages 1-10

3. The Concept of Literature: an Institutional Account

   • Stein Haugom Olsen

   Pages 11-35

4. Aesthetic Experience and a Belletristic Definition of Literature

   • Paisley Livingston

   Pages 36-51

5. Art, Literature and Value

   • Lars-Olof Åhlberg

   Pages 52-81

6. Components of Literariness: Readings of Capote’s In Cold Blood

   • Torsten Pettersson

   Pages 82-105

7. The Concept of Literature: a Description and an Evaluation

   • Anders Pettersson

   Pages 106-127

8. Literature as a Textualist Notion

   • Bo Pettersson

   Pages 128-145

9. The Literary Work as Pragmatist Experience

   • Erik Bjerck Hagen

   Pages 146-164

10. The Poem as Perfect Sensate Discourse: Literature and Cognition According to Baumgarten

    • Søren Kjørup

    Pages 165-186

11. Back Matter

    Pages 187-206

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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.

• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
• bibliography
• cognition
• concept
• discourse
• English literature
• experience
• literature
• living
• perfect
• poem

ERIK BJERCK HAGEN Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, NORWAY SOREN KJORUP Professor of Theory and History of the Humanities, Roskilde University, DENMARK PAISLEY LIVINGSTON Professor of Philosophy, Lingnan University, HONG KONG BO PETTERSSON Professor of Swedish and Comparative Literature, Umea University, SWEDEN TORSTEN PETTERSSON Professor of Literature, Uppsala University, SWEDEN LARS-OLOF AHLBERG Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, SWEDEN

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