Literature As Experience-Inviting Discourse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettersson, Anders.

Series:

FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures Series

FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures Series ; v.22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Reader-response criticism.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

This monograph presents a general perspective on the art of literature. It is a central thought in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely experienced: it is "experience-inviting discourse" meant for "experience-oriented reading".

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Series editor's preface

Preface

Author bio

Introduction

Part I Verbal communication

Chapter 1 The ordinary-language model of verbal communication and a revised model

Michael Reddy and the conduit metaphor

A revised model of verbal communication

The revised model and consensus meaning

"Verbal meaning" and "consensus meaning"

The expressive resources of revised-model language

Concluding remarks

Chapter 2 The revised model and the idea of a literary work

Ontological problems with the idea of literary works as genuine objects

Can abstract entities be created?

Can one read an abstract object?

Do we need abstract literary works for assessing the adequacy of exemplars of works?

Are references to literary works ineliminable?

Chapter 3 The revised model and the idea of utterance meaning

Utterance meaning and the code model

Utterance meaning and the inferential model

Utterance meaning and hypothetical intentionalism

Attempts to prove that there is a truth about what literary works mean

The revised model and conservativeness

The revised model and mentalism about meaning

Chapter 4 On descriptions of reality

The idea of a mind-independent world

Irrealism about entities

Does irrealism about entities deprive the world of inner differences?

Irrealism about entities and scepticism about "hard ontology"

Irrealism about entities and scepticism about conceptual schemes

Why irrealism about entities makes a difference

Irrealism and the aims behind my book

Part II Experience-inviting discourse and the concept of literature

Chapter 5 The concept of literature and its uses

On the history of the concept of literature

The concept of literature today.

The concept of literature and the present study

In what way does literature exist?

Chapter 6 Experience-inviting discourse and literature as an art

The informative, the directive, and the experience-inviting

Literature as an art and experience-inviting discourse

Why use the concept of literature at all?

An example of experience-inviting discourse: Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

On the experience of reading Klara and the Sun

More about experience-inviting discourse

The distinctiveness of the concept of experience-inviting discourse

Experience-inviting discourse and the use of language in literature

Chapter 7 The diversity of literature in the art sense

Kalidasa's Shakuntala

Li Bai's "Thoughts in a Quiet Night"

Jane Austen's Emma

Franz Kafka's "The Judgement"

Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's "The Boy and the Lizard"

On generalizations about literature

Part III Experience-oriented reading and literary criticism

Chapter 8 About works and meanings in literary-critical discourse

About innocent references to works and meanings

Literary works as genuine objects

Literary works as agents performing acts on their own

Jonathan Culler about the nature of meaning in literature

Derek Attridge about the nature of literary works

Catherine Belsey and poststructuralist theories of meaning in literature

Chapter 9 Two kinds of reading

Critical reading

The idea that critics are expert readers

The difference in purpose between critical and experience-oriented reading

Literature as an affordance and literature as an object of knowledge

The idea that there is a right way of reading literature

Chapter 10 Sixteen experience-oriented readers

Two of Richards' readers.

Three of Hansson's readers

Holland's five readers

Pette's six readers

Chapter 11 On evaluating acts of experience-oriented reading

Understanding experience-inviting discourse

Appropriating experience-inviting discourse

About highly personal appropriation of experience-inviting discourse

On evaluating acts of experience-oriented reading

Another case of highly personal appropriation

Do we have to evaluate the ways in which experience-oriented readers read?

Chapter 12 On how and why experience-oriented readers read literature

On the psychology of experience-inviting discourse and experience-oriented reading

On empirical and non-empirical approaches to the psychology of literature

On why people read literature

On the question of how people read literature

Application

The many faces of application

Application criticized and defended

Other partial explanations of literary response

Conclusion

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-272-4414-6

9789027244147

OCLC:

1569123002