Anders Pettersson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anders Pettersson is involved.

Titles

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.

The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning

Anders Pettersson

In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 7] 2017. xiii, 196 pp.