Literature and cognitive enrichment

pp. 61-84

in: Anders Pettersson, The concept of literary application, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Abstract

In the previous chapters, I introduced and explained application. The picture of application I present will be given more nuances little by little, but I now move on to consider why application is important and how it is related to other operations that readers perform. Nowhere is the significance of the theory of application as great and immediate as when it comes to understanding the cognitive affordances of literature.