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Literature as experience-inviting discourse /

"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 exper...

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Main Author:	Pettersson, Anders, 1946- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.
Series:	Fillm studies in languages and literatures, volume 22
Subjects:	Literature > Philosophy. Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Reader-response criticism. Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc. Literature > History and criticism. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

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