My name is Patrica Layden and I am a book geek. I’ve been interested in literature since high school. I worked in a library, as a journalist, and now I’m a writer.
The question of what literature is for – if there is a purpose – is not new. Since the birth of literary theory as a field of study, the debate has been long and complex and continues to this day. I share reflections on the concept of purpose in the development of literary theories up to the onset of the cognitive turn in the twenty-first century, when empirical studies of literary reading began to proliferate.
On my blog I share a wealth of useful information that will be of interest to everyone. There are book reviews, reading tips, lists of popular works with short reviews, and much more.