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  • 87251. Pettersson, Anders
    Global Literary History and the Conception of Literature2007In: Temporal Transition. What was the Past; What Will Be the Future?, University of South Africa Press , 2007, p. 164-Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87252.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies. Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Gränsens poetik: Border Poetics De-limited, red. Johan Schimanski & Stephen Wolfe2008In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, no 1, p. 96-Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87253.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Gunnar Ekelöf's: Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature2004In: Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, no 50Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 87254.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts.
    How Literature Changes the Way We Think2012In: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, E-ISSN 1538-1617Article, book review (Refereed)
  • 87255.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts.
    How Literature Changes the Way We Think2012In: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, E-ISSN 1538-1617Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87256.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Implied Assertions in Literature and Readers' Analogical Thinking2005Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 87257.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Interpretive Aims and the Concept of Utterance Meaning2004Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 87258.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University.
    Introduction: Concepts of Literature and Transcultural Literary History2006In: Notions of Literature across Times and Cultures, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin , 2006, p. 1-Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87259.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Introduction to Volume 1: the world before 200 CE2022In: Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE / [ed] Anders Pettersson, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2022, p. 1-6Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In the first volume of Literature: A World History, the authors introduce and discuss the early literatures of the world, setting the end of that initial period to about 200 CE. With the spread of writing, oral texts of particular importance to their culture eventually began to be written down, and new written texts in prose and verse began to be produced. Well before 200 CE, major literary traditions in writing had evolved in many parts of Asia, in northern Africa, and in southern Europe. Humankind and its immediate ancestors stem from Africa, and hominins of different species successively spread from there. The volume concludes with a brief consideration of important similarities and differences between some of the literatures introduced. 

  • 87260.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Kafka's The Judgement: experience-oriented reading and literary criticism2021In: Lessons from Kafka: philosophical readings of Franz Kafka's works / [ed] Tomáš Koblížek; Petr Koťátko, Praha: Filosofia, 2021, p. 285-309Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The paper focuses on Kafka's short narrative The Judgement (Das Urteil, 1912). However, although the contribution may be of some interest for the understanding of this Kafka story and of Kafka's achievement in general, The Judgement is being discussed primarily as an illustrative example. The main point of the paper is to sketch an overall perspective on the ordinary reading of literature. it is commonly believed that interpreting critics and ordinary readers basically have to perform the same task: that of understanding the meaning of the text in question. The author argues that this view seriously misconstrues the activities of both critic and reader. He also discusses, in a more tentative fashion, what one is rationally justified to demand from ordinary readings of literature performed for the sake of understanding and experiencing a literary text.

  • 87261.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism2016In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, ISSN 0966-8373, Vol. 24, no 3, p. 725-729Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87262.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts.
    Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism2016In: European Journal of Philosophy, ISSN 0966-8373, E-ISSN 1468-0378, Vol. 24, p. 725-729Article, book review (Refereed)
  • 87263.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms behind Literary Fiction2014In: True Lies Worldwide: Fictionality in Global Contexts / [ed] Anders Cullhed and Lena Rydholm, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014, p. 83-93Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 87264.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Literary Experience, Paraphrase, and the Idea of a Text2007Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In my paper, I will revisit the problem of paraphrase described by Cleanth Brooks in “The Heresy of Paraphrase” (1947). A poem by the Swedish author Tomas Tranströmer (b. 1931), “Fire-Jottings” (“Eldklotter”, 1983) will be used for exemplification. I intend to stress that literary texts are meant to be read and experienced. Properties of a kind usually called formal affect the reader’s experience significantly. In the course of my argument, I will give a concise analysis of the form of the Tranströmer poem and make some observations about possible effects of the formal qualities. A literary text can be conceived of as a potential source of literary experiences. Every change in the text, for instance its replacement with a paraphrase, will inevitably alter some of its properties and hence, potentially, its effects on a reader. Although paraphrases of literary texts can have legitimate uses there is, consequently, an important sense in which literary texts cannot be paraphrased. For obvious reasons, it is also impossible to equate a literary experience with a paraphrase of it. One may question whether it is justified to push literary experience into the foreground as resolutely as I do. Does not the impossibility of literary paraphrase have to do, rather, with the inexhaustibility of the literary text itself? I will meet objections in this vein by relativizing the very idea of a text, such as it is ordinarily conceived, as resting on a metaphoric basis, and by explaining why the question of paraphrase is best addressed without the help of that metaphor.

  • 87265.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Literary History and the Concept of Literature2004Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 87266.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Literary history: towards a global perspective Vol. 1 Notions of literature across times and cultures2006Collection (editor) (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Initiated in 1996 and launched in 1999, it aims at finding suitable methods and approaches for studying and analysing literature globally, emphasizing the comparative and intercultural aspect.

    Even though we nowadays have fast and easy access to any kind of information on literature and literary history, we encounter, more than ever, the difficulty of finding a credible overall perspective on world literary history. Until today, literary cultures and traditions have usually been studied separately, each field using its own principles and methods. Even the conceptual basis itself varies from section to section and the genre concepts employed are not mutually compatible. As a consequence, it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the interested layperson as well as for the professional student, to gain a clear and fair perspective both on the literary traditions of other peoples and on one's own traditions.

    The project can be considered as a contribution to gradually removing this problem and helping to gain a better understanding of literature and literary history by means of a concerted empirical research and deeper conceptual reflection. The contributions to the four volumes are written in English by specialists from a large number of disciplines, primarily from the fields of comparative literature, Oriental studies and African studies in Sweden. All of the literary texts discussed in the articles are in the original language.

    Each one of the four volumes is devoted to a special research topic.

  • 87267.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Literary Representation and Reference: Söderberg's Stockholm as an Example2005Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 87268.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Literary studies and human priorities2011In: Why literary studies?: raisons d'être of a discipline / [ed] Stein Haugom Olsen and Anders Pettersson, Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2011, p. 29-59Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87269.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Literary Studies and Human Priorities2007Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 87270.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE2022Collection (editor) (Refereed)
  • 87271.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University.
    Literature as Enriching Our Perspectives on Reality2007Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 87272.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Literatures before 200 CE: concluding remarks2022In: Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE / [ed] Anders Pettersson, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2022, p. 222-228Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In several cases, the literary cultures described in the first volume of Literature: A World History influenced each other more or less deeply. In particular, cultural and literary impulses going between western Asia, Egypt, and southern Europe have surfaced again and again in our history. Societies before 200 CE were of many different kinds, and literatures varied greatly in character and social function over that large time span. Purely oral literary cultures represent, themselves, a heterogeneous category. Oral literature no doubt also flourished in literary societies before 200 CE. The earliest fully developed systems of writing were difficult to use, and in societies like ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia writing and reading were typically performed by specially trained scribes. The Sanskrit literary tradition had a decidedly more religious character than its Chinese and Greco-Roman counterparts. The literary cultures themselves have comparatively little to offer of general reflection on the theory of literature.

  • 87273.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Litteratur, kunskap och läsares analogitänkande2005In: Perspectives on aesthetics, art and culture: essays in Honour of Lars-Olof Åhlberg / [ed] Claes Entzenberg and Simo Säätela, Stockholm: Thales, 2005, p. 258-272Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87274.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Meaning in Literature2007Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 87275.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Meaning in literature2010In: Neohelicon, ISSN 0324-4652, E-ISSN 1588-2810, Vol. 37, no 2, p. 433-439Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The concept of meaning is often treated as if it were a unitary concept, also when it is used about literature. Yet literary meaning is not all of a kind, and hence one cannot generalize about its overall characteristics. What is commonly called meaning in literature comprises a number of separate phenomena. A simple distinction between linguistic meaning, applicatory meaning, and critical meaning is introduced with the help of a literary example, Edith Södergran’s poem “My Childhood Trees” (“Min barndoms träd”, 1922). The dangers of treating literary meaning as a homogeneous phenomenon are then illustrated by considering the standpoints of two theorists: Jonathan Culler, who describes literary meaning as indeterminate, and Robert Stecker, who portrays it as determinate. In reality, linguistic meaning will have to be understood as being determinate, applicatory meaning as indeterminate, and critical meaning, existing in many varieties, as sometimes the one, sometimes the other. Problems analogous to those besetting the concept of meaning also arise in connection with the critical use of several other key literary-theoretical notions, such as “literature”, “text”, “form”, and “genre”.

  • 87276.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Notions of Literature across Times and Cultures2007Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 87277.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Om litteraturbegreppet2005In: Edda, ISSN 0013-0818, no 1, p. 3-15Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 87278.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    On Discussing the Values of Literature: A Preferentialist View2006Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 87279.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    On Literary Meaning2022In: Neohelicon, ISSN 0324-4652, E-ISSN 1588-2810, Vol. 49, no 1, p. 167-181Article in journal (Refereed)
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  • 87280.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    On the concept of world literature2022In: World Literature Studies, ISSN 1337-9690, Vol. 14, no 3, p. 12-23Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The expression “world literature” is currently being used in several ways: about various cul-turally and temporally inclusive bodies of literature and about various ways of studying such literature. In the article, special attention is devoted to the editorial concept of world literature in The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021), edited by Debjani Ganguly. Formula-tions about world literature sometimes cast it as a mind-independent entity, sometimes as a scholarly construction. It is argued that the choice between these alternatives is important, since it has significant consequences for the logic of thinking and reasoning about world literature.

  • 87281.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    On the concept of world literature2022In: World Literature Studies, ISSN 1337-9275, Vol. 14, no 3, p. 12-23Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The expression “world literature” is currently being used in several ways: about various culturally and temporally inclusive bodies of literature and about various ways of studying such literature. In the article, special attention is devoted to the editorial concept of world literature in The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021), edited by Debjani Ganguly. Formulations about world literature sometimes cast it as a mind-independent entity, sometimes as a scholarly construction. It is argued that the choice between these alternatives is important, since it has significant consequences for the logic of thinking and reasoning about world literature.

  • 87282.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    P.F. Strawson and Stephen Davies on the Ontology of Art: A Critical Discussion2009In: Organon F, ISSN 1335-0668, Vol. 16, no 4, p. 615-631Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 87283.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University.
    Possibilities for Transcultural Literary History2006In: Studying Transcultural Literary History, 2006, p. 9-Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87284.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Presentationalitet i litteratur, bildkonst och musik2007In: Konstverk och konstverkan / [ed] Göran Rossholm & Görans Sonesson, Eslöv: Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag, 2007, p. 32-Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87285.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts.
    Recension av: Ananta Ch. Sukla (Ed.), Fiction and Art. Explorations in Contemporary Theory2016In: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, E-ISSN 1538-1617Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87286.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Recension av Johan Sahlin, Om kyrklundheten värde, kunskap och skrivande i Willy Kyrklunds Om godheten.2009In: Samlaren: tidskrift för svensk litteraturvetenskaplig forskning, ISSN 0348-6133, E-ISSN 2002-3871, Vol. 130, p. 284-289Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87287.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Recension av Wischmann, Haettner Aurelius och Heitmann (red.), Litteraturens värde / Der Wert der Literatur2007In: Samlaren, ISSN 0348-6133, Vol. 128, p. 409-413Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87288.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts.
    [Recension] Osannolika händelser och den svenska realistiska romanen2017In: Samlaren: Tidskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur, ISSN 0348-6133, E-ISSN 2002-3871, Vol. 138, p. 174-179Article, book review (Refereed)
  • 87289.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Reply to Wilkinson2021In: American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal, ISSN 1946-1879, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 23-24Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 87290.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts.
    [Review of] Thinking Literature across Continents, Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller2018In: Postcolonial Text, ISSN 1705-9100, Vol. 13, no 1Article, book review (Refereed)
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  • 87291.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts.
    Review: Reconsidering the postmodern. European literature beyond relativism2012In: Journal of Dutch Literature, ISSN 2211-0879, Vol. 3, no 2, p. 85-90Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87292.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    [Review] Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History2017In: Literary Research, ISSN 0849-0570, E-ISSN 1707-0228, Vol. 33, p. 124-128Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 87293.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Skeptical reflections on the concept of aesthetic illusion2017In: The aesthetic illusion in literature and the arts / [ed] Tomáš Koblížek, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, p. 287-300Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87294.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Texters betydelse enligt språkvetaren och enligt litteraturvetaren2013In: Orientaliska Studier, ISSN 0345-8997, no 136, p. 181-195Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 87295.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    Texts, Intentions, and Interpretive Aims2006Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 87296.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    The Concept of Literary Application: Readers' Analogies from Text to Life2012Book (Refereed)
  • 87297.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    The Concept of Literature: a Description and an Evaluation2005In: From Text to Literature: New Analytic and Pragmatic Approaches / [ed] Stein Haugom Olsen and Anders Pettersson, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 106-127Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 87298.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    The Concept of Literature as a Problem for Literary HistoryManuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
  • 87299.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Languages.
    The Formative Influence of Literature: Analogical Thinking, Statements, and Identification2005Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 87300.
    Pettersson, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    The Formative Influence of Literature: Analogical Thinking, Statements, and Identification2008In: Arcadia (Berlin), ISSN 0003-7982, E-ISSN 1613-0642, Vol. 43, no 1, p. 41-48Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Readers often relate literature to life, and this may give literature the capacity to influence individuals and communities. The connection between literature and life is usually supposed to come about because literary texts convey explicit or implicit statements, or because readers involve themselves in the events described in the text through identification, empathy, or simulation. A third mechanism is the centre of attention in this paper: readers draw analogies from the literary text to reality. Elaborating on my earlier analyses of analogical thinking and similar processes, I suggest that actual reactions to literature must sometimes be understood as resulting from mental operations, in which the reader sets up an analogy between a textual element and something in the world outside. Such reader-made analogies between literary texts and the world are crucial in understanding how literature can influence people. However, analogical thinking provides merely a general model for understanding how readers of literature form ideas about the real world. One often has to analyze the processes in finer detail, and thus develop more specialized descriptions and concepts.

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