Olsen Stein Haugom, Pettersson Anders (Editors). From Text to Literature: New Analytic and Pragmatic Approaches

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — x, 206 pages. — ISBN13: 978–1–4039–9332–8.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.The Concept of Literature: an Institutional Account
Literature as a social institution: the sociological perspective
The institution theory of art
An institutional account of literature
Objections to the institutional account of literature
The theory of multiple interpretative communitiesAesthetic Experience and a Belletristic Definition of LiteratureConceptual priorities: art and the aesthetic
Concepts aesthetic
Aesthetic value and the definition of literature
Art, Literature and ValueThe concept of art
The concept of literature
Components of Literariness: Readings of Capote’s In Cold BloodLiterariness and fictionality
Truman Capote’s account of a multiple murder
Components of literariness 1: expressiveness
Components of literariness 2: representativity
Components of literariness 3: form
The role of fictionality
Towards a more comprehensive understanding
The Concept of Literature: a Description and an EvaluationThe everyday concept of literature
Specialized concepts of literature
Attempts at defining ‘literature’
The concept’s critics
An evaluation of the concept of literature
Literature as a Textualist Notion
Some terminological considerations
From oral to digital texts: on textualization and textual scholarship
The rise and fall of textualism in the humanities, especially literary studies
The textual aspect of literary studies today
The Literary Work as Pragmatist ExperienceExperience in Dewey and James
The structure of a literary experience
Experiencing The Portrait of a Lady
The Poem as Perfect Sensate Discourse: Literature and Cognition According to BaumgartenPoetry, truth – and a little bit more
The enlightenment of concepts
The aesthetic paradox and the concept of taste
Geometric poetics
Sensate cognition
The rules for attaining perfect sensate discourse
Aesthetics as epistemology
Sensuousness, aesthetic analysis, and things in themselves
Kant and Baumgarten
Emotive and cognitive language
A belletristic concept of literature