The Structure of Literary Understanding

This is a paperback edition of what has become an important contribution to aesthetics and the theory of literature. The author analyses in detail how the reader responds to literature and how he begins to evaluate it. Mr Olsen characterizes literature as an institution and thus forges links with contemporary philosophy which sees all human action as ordered and defined by social institutions.Olsen, Stein H. is the author of 'The Structure of Literary Understanding', published 1978 under ISBN 9780521217316 and ISBN 0521217318.