Anders Pettersson

Research qualifications: Docent

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anders.pettersson@umu.se

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Affiliated as professor emeritus at Department of Culture and Media Studies Section: -

Humanisthuset, Biblioteksgränd 3 (huvudentré) Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Publications Publications

On literary meaning

New horizons in international comparative literature, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024 : 139-165

Pettersson, Anders

On the concept of world literature

New horizons in international comparative literature, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024 : 119-138

Pettersson, Anders

Experience-oriented reading of literature versus literary criticism

Literatures of the world and the future of comparative literature: proceedings of the 22nd congress of the international comparative literature association, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers 2023 : 172-181

Pettersson, Anders

On Literary Meaning

Neohelicon, Springer 2022, Vol. 49, (1) : 167-181

Pettersson, Anders

On the concept of world literature

World Literature Studies, Slovak academy of Sciences 2022, Vol. 14, (3) : 12-23

Pettersson, Anders

On the concept of world literature

World Literature Studies, Bratislava: 2022, Vol. 14, (3) : 12-23

Pettersson, Anders

Europe

Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 2022 : 141-213

Pettersson, Anders

Introduction to Volume 1: the world before 200 CE

Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 2022 : 1-6

Pettersson, Anders

Literatures before 200 CE: concluding remarks

Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 2022 : 222-228

Pettersson, Anders

Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 2022

Pettersson, Anders

General introduction: literature, history, world

Literature: a world history : Volume 1: before 200 CE, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 2022 : lxiii-lxxx

Pettersson, Anders; Damrosch, David

Europe

Literature: a world history : Volume 2: 200 - 1500, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 2022 : 596-669

Pettersson, Anders; Jarrar, Maher

Comparative literature in Sweden

Comparative literature around the world: global practice, Paris: Honoré Champion 2021 : 95-103

Pettersson, Anders

Reply to Wilkinson

American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal, American Society for Aesthetics 2021, Vol. 13, (1) : 23-24

Pettersson, Anders

Kafka's The Judgement: experience-oriented reading and literary criticism

Lessons from Kafka: philosophical readings of Franz Kafka's works, Praha: Filosofia 2021 : 285-309

Pettersson, Anders

Factuality and Literariness

Narrative Factuality: A Handbook, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2020 : 601-612

Pettersson, Anders

[Review of] Thinking Literature across Continents, Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller

Postcolonial Text, Open Humanities Press 2018, Vol. 13, (1)

Pettersson, Anders

Skeptical reflections on the concept of aesthetic illusion

The aesthetic illusion in literature and the arts, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2017 : 287-300

Pettersson, Anders

A Revisionary View of Texts, Textual Meaning, and Fictional Characters

Organon F, VYDAVATELSTVO SLOVENSKEJ AKAD VIED VEDA 2017, Vol. 24, (3) : 366-383

Pettersson, Anders

Comparative literature in Sweden

Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Letras 2017, Vol. 18, (30) : 32-39

Pettersson, Anders

The idea of a text and the nature of textual meaning

FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 7

Pettersson, Anders

[Review] Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History

Literary Research, International Comparative Literature Association 2017, Vol. 33 : 124-128

Pettersson, Anders

[Recension] Osannolika händelser och den svenska realistiska romanen

Samlaren: Tidskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur, Svenska Litteratursällskapet 2017, Vol. 138 : 174-179

Pettersson, Anders

Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 24, (3) : 725-729

Pettersson, Anders

Beckett's Embers and the metaphoricity of critical dicourse

Chaos & form: echoes of Beckett in literature & the arts, Prag: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická Fakulta 2016 : 180-201

Pettersson, Anders

Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism

European Journal of Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons 2016, Vol. 24 : 725-729

Pettersson, Anders

Recension av: Ananta Ch. Sukla (Ed.), Fiction and Art. Explorations in Contemporary Theory

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Pettersson, Anders

Betydelse i litteratur: Roy Harris' språkteori och Emily Dickinsons "I heard a fly buzz when I died"

"Någonstädes mellan sol och söder, mellan nord och natt": Interdisciplinära studier tillägnade professor Torsten Pettersson, Stockholm: Gidlunds förlag 2015 : 243-257

Pettersson, Anders

Can texts be read?: the anatomy of a paradox

Organon F, Vydavatelstvo slovenskej akad vied veda 2015, Vol. 22 : 118-132

Pettersson, Anders

Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms behind Literary Fiction

True Lies Worldwide: Fictionality in Global Contexts, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2014 : 83-93

Pettersson, Anders

[Book Review] Ivan Callus, James Corby, and Gloria Lauri-Lucente, eds. Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy. London, New Delhi, New York, and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. 366. ISBN: 9781441128935.

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, University of Western Ontario 2014, Vol. 30 : 30-34

Pettersson, Anders

Texters betydelse enligt språkvetaren och enligt litteraturvetaren

Orientaliska Studier, Artos & Norma bokförlag 2013, (136) : 181-195

Pettersson, Anders

Det problematiska med föreställningen om den litterära texten

"Det universella och det individuella": festskrift till Eva Haettner Aurelius, Göteborg och Stockholm: Makadam Förlag 2013 : 251-258

Pettersson, Anders

"Barbaric Yawp" in Swedish

Rocznik Komparatystyczny / Comparative Yearbook, Szczecin: 2013, Vol. 4 : 265-272

Pettersson, Anders

The Idea of Fictional Worlds

Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics, London: College Publications 2012 : 194-219

Pettersson, Anders

Review: Reconsidering the postmodern. European literature beyond relativism

Journal of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2012, Vol. 3, (2) : 85-90

Pettersson, Anders

The Concept of Literary Application: Readers' Analogies from Text to Life

Basingstoke och New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2012

Pettersson, Anders

How Literature Changes the Way We Think

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Pettersson, Anders

How Literature Changes the Way We Think

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Pettersson, Anders

Literary studies and human priorities

Why literary studies?: raisons d'être of a discipline, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2011 : 29-59

Pettersson, Anders

Towards a Non-Eurocentric World History of Literature

Old Margins and New Centers / Anciennes marges et nouveaux centres: The European Literary Heritage in an Age of Globalization / L'héritage littéraire européen dans une ère de globalisation, Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang 2011 : 43-56

Pettersson, Anders; D'haen, Theo

Introduction

Why literary studies?: raisons d'être of a discipline, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2011 : 11-28

Pettersson, Anders; Olsen, Stein Haugom

Why Literary Studies?: Raisons D'être of a Discipline

Novus Forlag 2011

Pettersson, Anders; Olsen, Stein Haugom

Introduction

Diogenes (English ed.), Sage Publications 2011, Vol. 58, (1-2) : 3-4

Samassékou, Adama; Pettersson, Anders

Diogène 229-230: Les sciences humaines aujourd'hui

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 2010

Pettersson, Anders

The role of fictionality in literature

Fictionality - Possibility - Reality, Bratislava: Aleph 2010 : 184-200

Pettersson, Anders

Meaning in literature

Neohelicon, Springer Verlag 2010, Vol. 37, (2) : 433-439

Pettersson, Anders

Présentation

Diogène, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 2010, (1/229-230) : 3-5

Pettersson, Anders; Samassékou, Adama

Recension av Johan Sahlin, Om kyrklundheten värde, kunskap och skrivande i Willy Kyrklunds Om godheten.

Samlaren: tidskrift för svensk litteraturvetenskaplig forskning, Vol. 130 : 284-289

Pettersson, Anders

Analogitänkande som centralt för utbytet av litteratur

Litteratur som livskunskap: tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv på personlighetsutvecklande läsning, Borås och Uppsala: Högskolan i Borås; Uppsala universitet 2009 : 27-30

Pettersson, Anders

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