Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Author bio xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Verbal communication
8. Chapter 1 The ordinary-language model of verbal communication and a revised model 6
9. Chapter 2 The revised model and the idea of a literary work 20
10. Chapter 3 The revised model and the idea of utterance meaning 32
11. Chapter 4 On descriptions of reality 45
12. Part II Experience-inviting discourse and the concept of literature
13. Chapter 5 The concept of literature and its uses 62
14. Chapter 6 Experience-inviting discourse and literature as an art 71
15. Chapter 7 The diversity of literature in the art sense 88
16. Part III Experience-oriented reading and literary criticism
17. Chapter 8 About works and meanings in literary-critical discourse 104
18. Chapter 9 Two kinds of reading 117
19. Chapter 10 Sixteen experience-oriented readers 127
20. Chapter 11 On evaluating acts of experience-oriented reading 144
21. Chapter 12 On how and why experience-oriented readers read literature 154
22. Conclusion 168
23. Works cited 171
24. Index 183