Download or read book From Text to Literature written by S. Olsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text. Adopting an analytic approach, the articles attempt to clarify how these concepts govern our thinking about the phenomenon of literature in various ways, exploring the issues which arise when these concepts are employed as theoretical instruments for describing and analyzing the phenomenon of literature.