Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

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 experienced - it is "e;experience-inviting discourse"e; meant for "e;experience-oriented reading"e;. This centr...