Literary practice

pp. 163-185

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

Abstract

The textual-supremacy argument is not the only objection that people tend to raise against the idea that application is aesthetically relevant. I have also pointed to the aesthetic argument, which privileges an aesthetic approach to literature. The textual-supremacy argument may seem more forceful at first sight, but I believe that the aesthetic argument has a comparable intuitive appeal and gives rise to equally fundamental questions about literature as an art.