Narrative Absorption
Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 pp.
Miruna M. Doicaru
List of John Benjamins publications for which Miruna M. Doicaru plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Writing and literacy
2017 Chapter 9. The effect of suspense structure on felt suspense and narrative absorption in literature and film Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 177–197 | Chapter
The present study was to further the understanding of the conceptual relationship between narrative absorption, that is the intense engagement with a story world, and felt suspense, that is the anticipation of a narrative outcome event. To this end, a media comparative online experiment was… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Towards a new understanding of absorbing reading experiences Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 29–47 | Chapter
When reading literary narratives, we assume that readers can get absorbed in the story world and in the story’s artifice. Since most absorption research focuses primarily on popular media, virtually no attention has been paid to the possibility that literary devices such as deviation could elicit… read more
2017 Chapter 5. Into film: Does absorption in a movie’s story world pose a paradox? Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 97–118 | Chapter
Most film viewers know the experience of being deeply absorbed in the story of a popular film. It seems that at such moments they lose awareness of watching a movie. And yet it is highly unlikely that they completely ignore the fact that they watch a narrative and technological construction.… read more
2016 Reconceptualizing foregrounding: Identifying response strategies to deviation in absorbing narratives Scientific Study of Literature 6:2, pp. 176–207 | Article
The experience of deviation is often referred to as foregrounding and contrasted with the experience of feeling absorbed in a narrative. However, instead of simply assuming that foregrounding and absorption are mutually exclusive, they should also be considered as co-occurring: being absorbed as a… read more
