Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.responding to style
Section I.Minds
Chapter 2.Interpretation in interaction: On the dialogic nature of response
Chapter 3.Modelling an unethical mind
Chapter 4.Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception: The oppositional reader in political discourse
Chapter 5.A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction
Section II.Media
Chapter 6.“Why do you insist that Alana is not real?”: Visitors’ perceptions of the fictionality of Andi and Lance Olsen’s ‘there’s no place like time’ exhibition
Chapter 7.Reading hyperlinks in hypertext fiction: An empirical approach
Chapter 8.Evaluating news events: Using appraisal for reader response
Section III.Methods
Chapter 9.In defence of introspection
Chapter 10.Reading the readers: Ethical and methodological issues for researching readers and reading in the digital age
Chapter 11.Extra-textuality and affective intensities: Moving out from readers to people, places, and things
Chapter 12.Postscript: Toward a reconciliation of empirical traditions in the investigation of reading and literature
Index
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