Literary Reading: Empirical & Theoretical StudiesPeter Lang, 2006 - 234 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
List of Tables and Figures | 1 |
Chapter Two On the Necessity of Empirical Studies of Literary | 11 |
Chapter Three Experimental Approaches to Readers Responses | 23 |
Chapter Four Interpretation Cognition and Feeling | 35 |
Chapter Five Feeling in the Comprehension of Literary Narratives | 47 |
Five Paradoxes | 69 |
A Survey and Analysis | 89 |
Chapter Eight Episode Structures in Literary Narratives | 119 |
Are There Neuropsychological Indicators? | 143 |
Metaphor and Feeling | 157 |
An Empirical Approach | 173 |
Chapter Twelve An Evolutionary Framework for Literary Reading | 189 |
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour 1894 | 203 |
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