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(2005) From text to literature, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

The concept of literature

a description and an evaluation

Anders Pettersson

pp. 106-127

There is a long-standing discussion about the concept of literature and its definition (or abolition, or revision) among students of literature and of literary aesthetics. Though I have profited much from following these debates over the years, I have also felt a growing dissatisfaction with the premises which underlie the arguments both of the concept's advocates and of its critics.

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524170_6

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Pettersson, A. (2005)., The concept of literature: a description and an evaluation, in S. H. Olsen & A. Pettersson (eds.), From text to literature, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 106-127.

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