Literary Reading: Empirical & Theoretical StudiesP. Lang, 2006 - 234 pages This is the first major book in English on literary reading to be based on empirical methods. Moving the focus away from interpretation to the experience of literary texts, these studies demonstrate the role played by feeling in readers' responses, showing how feeling performs important functions during reading that cannot be accounted for by cognitive understanding. These studies not only reinvigorate the concept of literariness, they are also thoroughly interdisciplinary, offering a coherent approach to literary reading that draws on literary theory, psychology, neuropsychology, and evolutionary psychology. Several chapters help to introduce the empirical approach for students. |
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... compassion . " Almost no readers began to offer interpretations of the story for its own sake , apart from any personal interest they might have in it . Experimental studies , then , are unlikely to provide evidence for particular ...
... compassion . " Almost no readers began to offer interpretations of the story for its own sake , apart from any personal interest they might have in it . Experimental studies , then , are unlikely to provide evidence for particular ...
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... compassion ; and the last sentence ( # 23 ) with its ironic twist seems to call for compassion , although not all readers we have stud- ied experience that . Whether the feelings readers experience for fictional characters are similar ...
... compassion ; and the last sentence ( # 23 ) with its ironic twist seems to call for compassion , although not all readers we have stud- ied experience that . Whether the feelings readers experience for fictional characters are similar ...
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... compassion at unexpected death ; pleasure at tragic outcome ( fate ? ) This listing makes apparent how often feeling can act as a pivotal reference for a change in perspective or understanding . The comparison of # 4 and # 13 shows ...
... compassion at unexpected death ; pleasure at tragic outcome ( fate ? ) This listing makes apparent how often feeling can act as a pivotal reference for a change in perspective or understanding . The comparison of # 4 and # 13 shows ...
Contents
M445 | 1 |
Chapter Two On the Necessity of Empirical Studies of Literary | 11 |
Chapter Three Experimental Approaches to Readers Responses | 23 |
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Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In Honor of Willie Van Peer Sonia Zyngier Limited preview - 2008 |