From Text to Literature

ERIK BJERCK HAGEN Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, NORWAY SOREN KJORUP Professor of Theory and History of the Humanities, Roskilde University, DENMARK PAISLEY LIVINGSTON Professor of Philosophy, Lingnan University, HONG KONG BO PETTERSSON Professor of Swedish and Comparative Literature, Umea University, SWEDEN TORSTEN PETTERSSON Professor of Literature, Uppsala University, SWEDEN LARS-OLOF AHLBERG Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, SWEDEN

Introduction; S.H.Olsen & A.Pettersson The Concept of Literature: An Institutional Account; S.H.Olsen Aesthetic Experience and a Belletristic Definition of Literature; P.Livingston Art, Literature and Value; L.Ahlberg Components of Literariness-Readings of Capote's In Cold Blood ; T.Pettersson The Concept of Literature: A Description and an Evaluation; A.Pettersson Literature as a Textualist Notion; B.Pettersson The Literary Work as Pragmatist Experience; E.B.Hagen The Poem as Perfect Sensate Discourse: Literature and Cognition According to Baumgarten; S.Kjorup Bibliography