In:Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Anders Pettersson
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 22] 2026
► pp. 117–126
Chapter 9Two kinds of reading
Critical and experience-oriented
Published online: 15 January 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.22.c9
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.22.c9
Article outline
- Critical reading
- The idea that critics are expert readers
- The difference in purpose between critical
and experience-oriented reading - Literature as an affordance and literature as an object of knowledge
- The idea that there is a right way of reading literature
- Concluding remarks
Notes
