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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Page 94
... distinctive by virtue of specific features . In Eagleton's ( 1983 , p . 10 ) view “ Any- thing can be literature " or " can cease to be literature " depending upon the doc- trine currently in force . More specifically , Fish ( 1989 ) ...
... distinctive by virtue of specific features . In Eagleton's ( 1983 , p . 10 ) view “ Any- thing can be literature " or " can cease to be literature " depending upon the doc- trine currently in force . More specifically , Fish ( 1989 ) ...
Page 190
... distinctive role . While species - specific traits are com- monly thought to require fifty or more generations to develop , the evidence for literature goes back well beyond this ; thus the time span for the existence of lit- erature is ...
... distinctive role . While species - specific traits are com- monly thought to require fifty or more generations to develop , the evidence for literature goes back well beyond this ; thus the time span for the existence of lit- erature is ...
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... distinctive mode of attention and suffused with feelings both bodily and affective . Each state is sufficient to itself , although it undoubt- edly contributes toward a repertoire of dispositions of the self - the self in rela- tion to ...
... distinctive mode of attention and suffused with feelings both bodily and affective . Each state is sufficient to itself , although it undoubt- edly contributes toward a repertoire of dispositions of the self - the self in rela- tion to ...
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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References to this book
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In Honor of Willie Van Peer Sonia Zyngier Limited preview - 2008 |