The Concept of Literary Application: Readers' Analogies from Text to Life

By Anders Pettersson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349442259
• ISBN13: 9781349442256
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"