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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... function , and conse- quences , is perhaps the key element in this book as a whole . Fifth , my approach emphasises experiencing literature rather than interpreting it . Given the attention . to ordinary readers , it is clear that most ...
... function , and conse- quences , is perhaps the key element in this book as a whole . Fifth , my approach emphasises experiencing literature rather than interpreting it . Given the attention . to ordinary readers , it is clear that most ...
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... function of a poem may lie in bringing to consciousness the hidden spatial metaphors that , as Johnson points out , determine the structure and assumptions of much of our everyday thinking . Our normal assumption is perhaps to think of ...
... function of a poem may lie in bringing to consciousness the hidden spatial metaphors that , as Johnson points out , determine the structure and assumptions of much of our everyday thinking . Our normal assumption is perhaps to think of ...
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... functions that individuals possess in common , they argue , is to mystify the processes in ques- tion : there is " no ... function of discourse is to instantiate common interpre- tive schemata , for which emotional response and self ...
... functions that individuals possess in common , they argue , is to mystify the processes in ques- tion : there is " no ... function of discourse is to instantiate common interpre- tive schemata , for which emotional response and self ...
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 |