37.495, Books: Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse: Pettersson (2026)

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Subject: 37.495, Books: Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse: Pettersson (2026)

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Date: 03-Feb-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse: Pettersson (2026)


Title: Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Series Title: FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures   22
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/fillm.22

Author(s): Anders Pettersson

eBook ISBN:  9789027244147 Pages:  202 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244147 Pages:  202 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244147 Pages:  202 Price: U.S. $ 176.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233844 Pages:  202 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233844 Pages:  202 Price: Europe EURO 143.10
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233844 Pages:  202 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027233844 Pages:  202 Price: U.S. $ 176.00

Abstract:

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general
perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of
what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main
theme 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”.
This central idea leads to a number of important literary-theoretical
topics. Among the issues addressed in depth are the structure of
verbal communication, the makeup of the concept of literature, the
psychology of literary reading, and the relationship between literary
criticism and experience-oriented reading. On this last point the
author underlines the difference in purpose between critical and
experience-oriented reading. What we typically call literature is
written for offering worthwhile experiences, not for being made the
object of literary-critical observations, no matter how valuable these
may be in their own way.

Written In: English (eng)



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