Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies / edited by Donald Kuiken and Arthur M. Jacobs.

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  • Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
  • ©2021
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"This handbook reviews efforts to increase the use of empirical methods in studies of the aesthetic and social effects of literary reading. The reviewed research is expansive, including extension of familiar theoretical models to novel domains (e.g., educational settings); enlarging empirical efforts within under-represented research areas (e.g., child development); and broadening the range of applicable quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g., computational stylistics; phenomenological methods). Especially challenging is articulation of the subtle aesthetic and social effects of literary artefacts (e.g., poetry, film). Increasingly, the complexity of these effects is addressed in multi-variate studies, including confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. While each chapter touches upon the historical background of a specific research topic, two chapters address the area's historical background and guiding philosophical assumptions. Taken together, the material in this volume provides a systematic introduction to the area for early career professionals, while challenging active researchers to develop theoretical frameworks and empirical procedures that match the complexity of their research objectives." -- Provided by the publisher
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021).
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In English.
Contents
  • Introduction : reflections and prognoses / Don Kuiken and Arthur M. Jacobs
  • Section I : Modes of Textual Representation
  • Sound shape and sound effects of literary texts / Stefan Blohm, Maria Kraxenberger, Christine A. Knoop, Mathias Scharinger
  • Contextual meaning-making in reading : the role of affect / Jana Lüdtke, Johanna K. Kaakinen, Arthur M. Jacobs
  • Mental simulation during literary reading / Marloes Mak, Roel M. Willems
  • Constructing mental models in literary reading : the role of interpretive inferences / Kathryn S. McCarthy, Joseph P. Magliano, Sarah R. Levine, Andrew Elfenbein, William S. Horton
  • Section II : The Form and Function of Literariness
  • Empirical Studies of Poetic Metaphor / Joseph Glicksohn, Chanita Goodblatt
  • Foregrounding / Willie van Peer, Paul Sopčák, Davide Castiglione, Olivia Fialho, Arthur M. Jacobs, Frank Hakemulder
  • The psychological and social effects of literariness : formal features and paratextual information / Markus Appel, David Hanauer, Hans Hoeken, Kobie van Krieken, Tobias Richter, José Sanders
  • Section III : Social Effects of Literary Reading
  • Children's reading for pleasure with digital books / Natalia Kucirkova, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
  • Stories and their role in social cognition / Jessica E. Black, Jennifer L. Barnes, Keith Oatley, Diana I. Tamir, David Dodell-Feder, Tobias Richter, Raymond A. Mar
  • Character engagement and identification / Rebecca (Riva) Tukachinsky Forster
  • Section IV : Narrative Engagement and Experiential Depth
  • Narrative absorption : an overview / Moniek M. Kuijpers, Shawn Douglas, Katalin Bálint
  • Openness, reflective engagement, and self-altering literary reading / Don Kuiken, Paul Sopčák
  • Meaningful responses to narrative digital media : research from a media psychology perspective / Mary Beth Oliver, Ryan RuiYang Tan, Olivia S. Reed
  • Audience reception of tragic entertainment and the value of cathartic reflection / Guan Soon Khoo
  • Section V : Enhanced Social Well-Being
  • Literary reading and mental wellbeing / Josie Billington, Mette Steenberg
  • Poetic writing research : the history, methods, and outcomes of poetic (auto) ethnography / David Hanauer
  • Section VI : History, Theory, and Empirical Methods
  • Computational stylistics / J. Berenike Herrmann, Arthur M. Jacobs, Andrew Piper
  • Philosophy of science, methodology, and theory development in empirical studies of literary experience / Mark J. Bruhn
  • The history of the empirical study of literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Massimo Salgaro.
ISBN
  • 9783110645958 ((electronic book))
  • 3110645955 ((electronic book))
  • 9783110644784 ((electronic book))
  • 3110644789 ((electronic book))
OCLC
1269268894
Doi
  • 10.1515/9783110645958
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