Chapter published in:
Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 163–178

Chapter 9
In defence of introspection

| University of Nottingham
Article outline
  • 1.The problem of observing reading
  • 2.The nature of introspection
  • 3.Introspecting a poem
  • 4. A retrospective on the argument
  • References
Published online: 08 February 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.09sto
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