In:Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Anders Pettersson
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 22] 2026
► pp. 183–186
Index
Published online: 15 January 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.22.index
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.22.index
A
- AbhijnanashakuntalamSee Shakuntala
- abstract artifacts 24–25
- abstract entities 22, 23–31
- actor-network theorySee Latour
- aesthetic experience 83–84
- affective fallacy21
- Airs of the States65
- Alexievich, Svetlana66
- Allan, Keith34
- analytic aesthetics and the ontology of literary works 22, 23–31
- Andersen, Tore Rye 108, 116
- Andersson, Jan71
- And Then There Were None (Christie) 64–65
- applicationSee under experience-oriented reading
- appropriation (of a piece of discourse) 147–49
- Assmann, Aleida 120, 124
- Attridge, Derek 112–114, 116, 119, 124
- Austen, Jane 88, 93
- Austin, J.L. 33, 73, 74, 83
- Auyoung, Elaine 120, 124
B
- Baker, Anne35
- Barnes, Annette40
- Barry, Peter 114, 116
- Beardsley, Monroe 20–21, 37
- Belsey, Catherine 114–15, 116
- Bennett, Andrew 68, 98, 99–100, 118–19
- Beschreibung eines DorfesSee Description of a Village
- Böök, Fredrik14
- “The Boy and the Lizard” (Zenani) 88–89, 96–97, 99
- Bühler, Karl72
C
- Carnap, Rudolf52
- Carroll, Lewis35
- Charlton, Michael158
- Christie, Agatha 64–65
- Churchill, Winston81
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius81
- Classic of Poetry65
- conceptual relativism 45–46, 49, 50–51, 55, 57, 170
- conduit metaphorSee Reddy, Michael
- consensus meaning 14–15, 16, 123, 145, 146
- conventional meaning 20–21, 33–34
- Crews, Frederick C.104
- critical reading
116, 117–19, 122, 123–25
See also experience-oriented reading: versus
- literary criticism
- Cruse, Alan 9, 35, 36
- Culler, Jonathan 101, 110–12, 116
- Currie, Gregory 100–101
D
- Dad (Wharton)151
- Dailey, Audrey 131–32
- “Das Urteil”See “Judgement, The”
- Davidson, Donald 55–57
- Davies, David 28, 41–42
- Davies, Stephen29
- “Den enda stunden”See “That Single Moment”
- Derrida, Jacques 48–49, 114
- Description of a Village (Kaschnitz) 81, 147–49
- Dewey, John119
- directive discourse 72–73, 74, 81, 146, 160–61
- direction of fit73n119
- Dodd, Julian 25n28, 26–28
- Dylan, Bob66
E
- Eagleton, Terry 85, 86
- Emma (Austen) 88, 93–94, 99
- empathy 161–162
- empirical studies of literature 127–42, 156–57, 166–67
- “Endymion” (Stagnelius) 14–15
- exemplar, physical (of a literary work) 12–13
- experience-inviting discourse
- concept of 73, 81–82, 126
- distinctiveness of 83–84, 87
- examples of 78–79, 81, 88–97, 129, 132–33, 136, 139, 147–49, 151
- and literary experience 74, 155
- and literature as an art 1, 71, 75–76, 86
- purposes of 154, 155
- experience-oriented reading
- and absorption165
- and application 160–64
- distinctiveness of 1, 127, 134, 143
- diversity of 127, 131, 138, 142
- examples of 80–81, 130, 133–34, 136–38, 140–42, 148, 152
- versus literary criticism 105–106, 116, 117, 118–19, 122, 169
- right way of performing 125, 144, 146–47, 149–50, 152–53, 167
- and stimulus-response reactions165
- experiencing 79, 150–51, 163–64, 168 ; See also literary experiences
F
- family resemblances69n
- Faulkner, William136
- Felski, Rita 109, 116
- Fialho, Olivia 121–22
- fictionality 85–86
- Fish, Stanley 21–22, 22n20, 30
- foregrounding85
- Freud, Sigmund 162, 163
- Frye, Northrop21
- fundamental literary theory1
- Furberg, Mats71
G
- Genji monogatariSee Tale of Genji, The
- Gibson, John164
- Grice, H.P. 33, 74
- Guillory, John 121, 122
- guofeng65
- Gutiérrez, Sofía Meléndez28
H
- Hammarsköld, Lorenzo14
- Hansson, Gunnar 127, 132, 135
- Harris, Roy 10–11, 35
- Hayot, Eric27
- Hengeveld, Kees35
- Holland, Norman 127, 135–36
- Holmqvist, Bengt15
- Homer65
I
- identification 162, 163
- informative discourse 72, 73, 74, 81, 146, 160–61
- Ingarden, Roman21
- instances (of multiple artworks)22
- intentional fallacy, the 21, 110
- irrealism about entities 47–50, 57–59, 170
- Iser, Wolfgang 85–86, 110, 116
- Ishiguro, Kazuo 78, 80, 82
- iterability114
J
- Jakobson, Roman 21, 72, 85
- Jameson, Fredric 124–25
- “Jing ye si”See “Thoughts in a Quiet Night”
- jokes75
- “Judgement, The” (Kafka) 9, 12–13, 13–14, 88, 94–95, 99
K
- Kafka, Franz 9, 12–13, 88
- Kalidasa 88, 88n135
- Kant, Immanuel83
- Kaschnitz, Marie Luise 81, 147–49
- Kato, Shuichi107
- Keene, Suzanne 161–62
- Keith, Arthur Berriedale100
- Khlentzos, Drew47
- Kirk, Robert51
- Kitcher, Philip48
- Klara and the Sun (Ishiguro) 78–81, 82, 145
- Kramer, Susanne 147–48
- Krystal, Arthur 68–69
L
- Lamarque, Peter 120, 124
- Latour, Bruno 111, 111–12n170
- Levinson, Jerrold 37–39, 41
- Li Bai88
- linguistics and the nature of utterance meaning 33–37
- literariness 20, 85
- literary criticism
- defined and characterized 104, 105–106, 167
- as expert reading 104–105, 119–20, 168–69
- and the literary work 106–110, 112–14, 116
- and meaning in literature 110–12, 114–15, 116
- literary experiences
- and openness155
- psychological mechanisms behind 160–66, 170
- as real-life experiences 79, 146, 150–51, 167, 168
- transforming150
- versus verbal understanding 74, 108, 112
- literary interpretation104
- literary practice 117, 159–60
- literary studies 123, 125
- literary theory59
- literary works
- ontology of 20–31
- and the ordinary-language model 6, 8–9, 107, 108
- and reference21
- and the revised model 7, 20
- the term6n1
- literature
- as an art
67, 77, 86, 104, 168
- as an affordance 122–23, 168
- the definition of 71, 75–76
- the diversity of 88–97
- in the sense used by Wellek and Warren71n114
- values found in 124, 157–59, 164, 166
- the concept of 63, 67
- and its existence 68, 69
- generalizations about 88, 97–101, 156–57, 160, 163
- the literary concept of
64, 66–67, 69–70, 77, 86
- as evaluative or non-evaluative 64–65
- and the idea of its definition 67, 68–69, 69n113, 69–70
- as used about older times65
- as used about oral literature 65, 88–89
- the term 62–63, 64, 64n103
- as an art
67, 77, 86, 104, 168
- Livingston, Paisley 40–41
- Long, Elizabeth 151–52
- lyrics75
M
- Mañana en la batalla piensa en míSee Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
- Martindale, Colin 131–32
- meaning
- nature of 32, 35, 43
- and ordinary-language model 6, 8
- and revised model 7, 13–14, 43
- meaning-ideas 7, 11, 43
- mental entities22
- metaphysical idealism 46–47
- metaphysical realism 47, 49, 50, 69
- mind-independence 45–47, 54
- Moi, Toril 109, 116, 120, 124
- Mukařovský, Jan 21, 85
- multiple artworks22
- Murasaki Shikibu 106–107
- musical works 25, 26–29, 30–31
N
- Neumann, Gerhard9
- New Criticism 20, 164
- non-practical texts83
O
- ontology22; See also irrealism about entities; metaphysical idealism; metaphysical realism
- ordinary-language model (of literary communication)
- character of 6, 8
- as compared with the revised model 13, 17–18, 32
- and literary criticism 17–18, 106, 108, 110
P
- Parker, Robert Dale66
- Peirce, Charles Sanders23
- performative acts73
- Pette, Corinna 127, 139–40, 142, 157–58
- phenomenological fallacy 108–109, 110, 111, 112
- physical entities22
- pornography75
- poststructuralism 114–15
- Pozzebon, Stefano72
- pragmatics84; See also directive discourse; experience-inviting discourse; informative discourse
- Predelli, Stefano28
- promises73
- Putnam, Hilary 52–53
Q
- questions73
- Quine, W.V.27n32
R
- Rabaté, Jean-Michel163
- reading
- of abstract entities 23, 26, 27
- defined6n2
- nature of 146, 160, 166
- reality, nature of 45, 46, 53, 54
- Records of the Grand Historian (Sima)65
- Reddy, Michael 8–10, 110
- relevance to the addressee 71, 81–82, 145
- revised model (of literary communication)
- and Attridge’s theory of the literary work 112, 114
- and Belsey’s theory of meaning115
- character of 7, 11–13, 16–17, 40–41
- and Culler’s theory of meaning111
- and its ontology 43, 59–60
- versus the ordinary-language model 13, 17, 32, 44, 107
- rhetoric76
- Richards, I.A. 127, 128–30, 145
- “A Rose for Emily” (Faulkner)136
- Rossetti, Christina129
- Royle, Nicholas 68, 98, 99–100, 118–19
- Rudner, Richard 25, 30–31
- Russian formalism85
S
- Sappho65
- Saussure, Ferdinand de 33, 74
- Saussy, Haun 76–77
- Scheub, Harold 96, 96–97, 100
- Scott, Walter93
- Searle, John R. 33, 50–51, 54, 72, 74
- Selbmann, Rolf 108, 109, 116
- Shakuntala (Kalidasa) 88, 89–91, 92, 94, 99
- Shklovsky, Victor85
- Sima Qian 65, 75
- ShijiSee Records of the Grand Historian
- ShijingSee Classic of Poetry
- speech-act theory74
- “Spring Quiet” (Rossetti) 129, 145
- Stagnelius, Erik Johan14
- Structuralism 20, 74, 85
T
- Tale of Genji, The (Murasaki Shikibu) 106–107
- text 6n1, 10, 112
- Thagard, Paul 46–47
- “That Single Moment” (Runeberg) 132–33
- Thomasson, Amie L. 24, 53–54
- “Thoughts in a Quiet Night” (Li Bai) 88, 91–92, 94, 99, 163
- Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Marías)139
- Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis) 35–36
- Thucydides 65, 75
- Tolhurst, William37
- transportation (in reading)165
- truth, nature of 45, 49, 52, 56–57
- types and tokens 23–24, 29–30
U
- utterance32
- utterance meaning
- and the code model 33–34
- and the inferential model 34–37
- and hypothetical intentionalism 37–41
- nature of 32–33
V
- verbal communication7
- verbal meaning
- and correctness10
- defined 11, 15–16
- and literary experience 80, 131, 144–46, 160
- verbal understandingSee verbal meaning
W
- Warren, Austin 63, 85
- Wellek, René 21, 63, 85
- wenzhang76
- Wetzel, Linda 29–30
- Wharton, William151
- Wimsatt, William K.21
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig 69n
- Wolterstorff, Nicholas28
- writing6n2
Z
- Zapf, Hubert 98, 99–100
- Zenani, Nongenile Masitathu 88, 96, 96–97
