The Evaluation of Literary Texts

• Acknowledgments | p. 7
• Part I. Theoretical Introduction
• 1. The Literary Text in the Communication Process | p. 13
• 1.1. Semiotics and information theory
• 1.2. The communication process of a literary text
• 1.3. Research problem
• 2. The Relations between Text and Reader | p. 35
• 2.1. Russian Formalism
• 2.2. Prague Structuralism
• 2.3. Esthetics of reception
• 3. Auxiliary Disciplines for the Investigation into Literary Evaluation | p. 57
• 3.1. Value theory
• 3.2. A parallelism between axiology and epistemology?
• 3.3. Sociology of literature
• 3.4. Psychology of literature
• 4. The Structure of Literary Evaluation | p. 80
• 4.1. The place of evaluation in the investigation into a literary text
• 4.2. Two different theories of literary value
• 4.3. The structure of the literary value judgment
• 4.4. Research into literary evaluation
• Part II. Experimental Research
• 5. An Experimental Investigation into the Evaluation of a Literary Text | p. 95
• 5.1. Problem
• 5.2. Readers and texts
• 5.3. Indiana investigation
• 5.4. Yale investigation
• 5.5. Recapitulation, general discussion and conclusions
• 6. Some Implications of the Experimental Method for the Study of Literature | p. 156
• 6.1. Further discussion of the experiments
• 6.2. Problems to be considered in future experiments
• 6.3. Possibilities and limitations of the experimental method
• Appendices: 1. The four short stories | p. 171
• 2. Questionnaire A | p. 187
• 3. Questionnaire B | p. 189
• 4. Questionnaire C | p. 192
• Index of Authors | p. 227

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