Anders Pettersson

Discusses the multiplicity of principles of interpretation and provide a descriptive analysis of the concept of interpretation itself

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely experienced – it is “experience-inviting discourse” meant for “experience-oriented reading”. This central idea leads to a number of important literary-theoretical topics. Among the issues addressed in depth are the structure of verbal communication, the makeup of the concept of literature, the psychology of literary reading, and the relationship between literary criticism and experience-oriented reading. On this last point the author underlines the difference in purpose between critical and experience-oriented reading. What we typically call literature is written for offering worthwhile experiences, not for being made the object of literary-critical observations, no matter how valuable these may be in their own way.

Digitaliseringen förändrar arbetslivet och arbetsmarknaden i grunden. Det är inte bara våra kommunikationer och hur produkter och tjänster skapas och distribueras som påverkas. Utvecklingen ställer också helt nya krav på omställning och livslångt lärande. Och den ger upphov till många andra utmaningar där det gäller att samhället, arbetsmarknadens parter och de enskilda medborgarna hänger med i svängarna. Genom att samla ledande röster från forskning, näringsliv, fackföreningsrörelse, civilsamhälle, politik och myndigheter vill Denna sköna nya värld (red. Åke Magnusson) bidra till ökad medvetenhet om digitaliseringen och dess effekter, på gott och ont. Boken är resultatet av ett samarbete mellan en rad västsvenska aktörer. Med Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet som nav har Svenskt Näringsliv, LO, Teknikföretagen, IF Metall, Göteborgsregionen (GR) och Folkuniversitetet gemensamt utformat den.

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.

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.

Drawing on post-Gricean pragmatics and Nicholas Wolterstorff's notion of presentationality, this text develops the idea of the verbal text and conveys an integrated and nuanced understanding of literary experience, its conditions, and the values it affords.

Pettersson demonstrates the implications and applications of the theory through a series of detailed studies of literary works, taking care to show that his theory is compatible with a broad variety of perspectives. Combining an intimate knowledge of modern literary theory and the aesthetics of literature with innovative applications of linguistics and cognitive psychology to the literary work, he provides a thorough treatment of fundamental problems in the area, including the concept of a text or work, the concept of form, and the distinctiveness of the literary use of language.