Directions in Empirical Literary Studies
In honor of Willie van Peer
Editors
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology, psychology, linguistics and literature, all focusing on how empirical studies have impacted these different areas. Theoretical issues are discussed and solid methods are presented. Some chapters also show the relation between empirical studies and new technology, examining developments in computer science and corpus linguistics. This book takes a global perspective, with contributors from many different countries, both senior and junior researchers. Broad in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, it contributes with the state-of-the-art developments in the field.
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp.
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© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. ix–xii
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Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives
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Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunctionUri Margolin | pp. 7–19
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Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validityGeoff M. Hall | pp. 21–34
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Notes toward a new philologyDonald C. Freeman | pp. 35–47
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A theory of expressive readingDon Kuiken | pp. 49–68
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Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature
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Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary responsePeter Dixon and Marisa Bortolussi | pp. 75–87
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Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrativeDavid S. Miall | pp. 89–102
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Two levels of foregrounding in literary narrativesYeshayahu Shen | pp. 103–111
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Narrative empathy and inter-group relationsJános László and Ildiko Smogyvary | pp. 113–125
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Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studiesRaymond Mar, Maja Djikic and Keith Oatley | pp. 127–137
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Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognitionFrank Hakemulder | pp. 139–153
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Part III. Computers and the humanities
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An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributionsArthur C. Graesser and Brent Morgan | pp. 161–173
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Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary TextsMax M. Louwerse, Nick Benesh and Bin Zhang | pp. 175–191
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Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylisticsMichael Kimmel | pp. 193–210
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Searching for style in modern American poetryDavid L. Hoover | pp. 211–227
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The laws governing the history of poetryColin Martindale | pp. 229–242
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Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms.Bill Louw | pp. 243–264
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Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation
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Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical varietyVander Viana, A. Giordani and Sonia Zyngier | pp. 271–282
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Language allergy: Myth or realityMariya Sergeyeva and Anna Chesnokova | pp. 283–295
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Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the RingsVladimir Yepishev | pp. 297–308
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Threat and geographical distance: the case of North KoreaJan Prasil, Maria Dudusova and Jan Auracher | pp. 309–315
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The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in PolandMaciej Maryl | pp. 317–328
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Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in EnglishWalter Nash | pp. 329–342
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About the contributors | pp. 343–350
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Index of authors | pp. 351–354
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Index of keywords | pp. 355–357
“The essays in this volume represent the most advanced and intriguing work being done today in the empirical study of literature. How fitting that they are published in honor of Willie van Peer, an intellectual pioneer whose scholarship will continue to have a powerful effect on criticism and philosophy in years to come.”
Denis Dutton , University of Canterbury, New Zealand
“This collection draws together some of the most exciting research underway in empirical literary studies. There could be no more fitting tribute to van Peer's work in this field. Drawing on Discourse Studies, Narratology, Reader Response, Poetics and a Sociology of Literature, the essays brought together in this volume demonstrate the range of empirical studies and its contributions to literary theory. The structure of the volume negotiates this breadth through innovative section divisions that present work by senior researchers through the introductory and contextual comments of emerging scholars. This volume makes a significant contribution to empirical literary studies and serves as an excellent introduction for those with developing interests in the field.”
James Gifford , University of Victoria, Canada
“Here is a volume that treats readers to a discovery tour in empirical studies of literature. Words like fragility, sympathy, imagining, metaphors, and novelty, resound in this volume. They police the scope of studies of literature. Stories make us more aware of the real world than any documentary truth. Only through literature can we enter somebody else's feelings. The name for it is compassion. Many of the international experts who contribute here share that goal of unpacking the mechanisms of compassion in stories, often through experiments and text manipulations. Nothing they write is without interest. In this sense, this is more than a Festschrift, and for good reason. You come away from the book with the sense of having caught sight of a beacon.”
Robert Hogenraad, Catholic University of Louvain
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CJCR: Reading skills
Main BISAC Subject
LIT007000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading