Application and the act of reading

pp. 41-60

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

Abstract

In the previous two chapters, I described the act of application and compared or contrasted it with some other actions or processes thought to occur when literature is read and experienced. In this chapter, I look more closely at the act of reading as a whole and attempt to explain how application enters into that more comprehensive context.