ENGLISH

Verbal Art: A Philosophy of Literature and Literary Experience

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780773568563
DOI
10.1515/9780773568563
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3983615 bytes)
Pages
400\384
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 21:11:06

Description

Anders Pettersson presents a comprehensive account of the foundations of literature, grounded in an original analysis of the interactions between author and reader. Drawing on post-Gricean pragmatics and Nicholas Wolterstorff's notion of presentationality, Pettersson develops the idea of the verbal text and conveys an integrated and nuanced understanding of literary experience, its conditions, and the values it affords. In the second part of Verbal Art he systematically examines the cognitive, affective, and formal aspects of the literary work and explores their interrelations.

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