From text to literature

new analytic and pragmatic approaches

Edited by
Stein Olsen, Anders Pettersson

Palgrave Macmillan

2005

Abstract

The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text. Adopting an analytic approach, the articles attempt to clarify how these concepts govern our thinking about the phenomenon of literature in various ways, exploring the issues which arise when these concepts are employed as theoretical instruments for describing and analyzing the phenomenon of literature.