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 73
... fiction , before such judgements have any evidence on which to unfold . They also consider Gregory Currie's supposition that we re- spond to fiction as if someone ( the fictional author ) were telling the story as fact . The emotions of ...
... fiction , before such judgements have any evidence on which to unfold . They also consider Gregory Currie's supposition that we re- spond to fiction as if someone ( the fictional author ) were telling the story as fact . The emotions of ...
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... fiction seems real . This is his answer to why we should care about fictional characters : the function of the experience has some similarity to that of dreams and daydreams — the opportunity to rehearse feelings in particular ...
... fiction seems real . This is his answer to why we should care about fictional characters : the function of the experience has some similarity to that of dreams and daydreams — the opportunity to rehearse feelings in particular ...
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... fictional truths about himself " ( p . 242 ) . But fic- tion , even first - person fiction , usually offers a much wider range of imaginative invitations than that of inhabiting one character , especially since modern fiction ( from ...
... fictional truths about himself " ( p . 242 ) . But fic- tion , even first - person fiction , usually offers a much wider range of imaginative invitations than that of inhabiting one character , especially since modern fiction ( from ...
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 |