The Concept of Literary Application [electronic resource] : Readers' Analogies from Text to Life /
Pettersson, Anders.author.
Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it – an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism is of profound importance for the understanding of literary art and experience.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The Application of Literature to Life; 2 Examples of Application; 3 Application and the Act of Reading; 4 Literature and Cognitive Enrichment; 5 Transportation and Empathy; 6 Simulation and Identification; 7 The Aesthetic Approach to Literature; 8 Conceptions of the Text; 9 Literary Practice; 10 The Concept of Literature; 11 Questions of Norms and Values; 12 A Final Look at Application; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-244) and index.
Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it – an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism is of profound importance for the understanding of literary art and experience.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Psychology.
Epistemology.
Literature—Philosophy.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Psychology, general.
Epistemology.
Literary Theory.