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The document discusses different perspectives on what defines literature and how the concept of literature has developed over time. It includes several sections with titles related to canon formation, how literature is defined, and analyzing literature. The document appears to be a collection of essays on the topic of defining literature.

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What Is Literature Hernadi Contents

The document discusses different perspectives on what defines literature and how the concept of literature has developed over time. It includes several sections with titles related to canon formation, how literature is defined, and analyzing literature. The document appears to be a collection of essays on the topic of defining literature.

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Contents

Preface Introduction PaulHernadi v. DEFINITIONS: THEORY AND HISTORY 3 ix xi

On the Possibility of Saying What Literature Is F. E. Sparskott What Is Literature?


Ren Wellek

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What Isn't Literature? E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Why Theorize about Literature? Edward Davenport 2. CANON-FORMATION: FORCES AND PROCEDURES

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"Literature": A Many-Sided Process George McFadden A Procedural Definition of Literature Charles Altieri

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Prolegomena Grammatologica: Literature as the Disembodiment of Speech Elias L. Rivers The Social Definition of Literature Richard Ohmann Literary Works Express Propositions Robert ]. Matthews

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LITERATURE: ACTS, EFFECTS, ARTIFACTS

The Literary Work: Its Structure, Unity, and Distinction from Forms of Non-Literary Expression Joseph Strelka The Mirror as Metaphor for Literature JamesI. Wimsatt Native Readers of Fiction: A Speech-Act and Genre-Rule Approach to Defining Literature RobertL. Brown, Jr., and Martin Steinmann, Jr. Aesthetic Intentions and Fictive Illocutions Monroe C. Beardsley Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as Vision Murray Krieger "All Discourse Aspires to the Analytic Proposition" Michael McCanles

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vu Literature as Transaction Norman N. Holland "Literature": Disjunction and Redundancy Morse Peckham Toward a Semiotics of Literature Robert Scholes 206

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PPN: 006846858 Titel: What is literature? / ed. with an introd. by Paul Hernadi. - Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Pr., 1978 ISBN: 0-253-36505-8 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund

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