The Future of Scientific Studies in Literature

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 1:1 (2011)

[Scientific Study of Literature, 1:1] 2011. iv, 193 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.1.1

Table of Contents

Introduction Willie van Peer	1–5
Articles
Science in the perspective of literariness David S. Miall	7–14
Corpus linguistics and the study of literature: Back to the future? Douglas Biber	15–23
A computer’s understanding of literature Arthur C. Graesser, Nia Dowell and Christian Moldovan	24–33
Using literature to understand authors: The case for computerized text analysis James W. Pennebaker and Molly E. Ireland	34–48
Education and the study of literature Carol D. Lee	49–58
The scientific study of literature: What can, has, and should be done Peter Dixon and Marisa Bortolussi	59–71
Literature and event understanding Heather Bailey and Jeffrey M. Zacks	72–78
The scientific study of poetic writing David I. Hanauer	79–87
Individual differences in readers’ narrative experiences Richard J. Gerrig	88–94
The individual in the scientific study of literature Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.	95–103
In defense of commonality Rachel Giora	104–112
Transporting into narrative worlds: New directions for the scientific study of literature Melanie C. Green and Jordan M.A. Carpenter	113–122
Vivifications of literary investigation David N. Rapp, Hidetsugu Komeda and Scott R. Hinze	123–135
How do we entertain ourselves with literary texts? Peter Vorderer and Franziska S. Roth	136–143
Ways to engage readers: Relevance in the scientific study of literature Frank Hakemulder	144–152
Fiction and its study as gateways to the mind Keith Oatley	153–164
Science, literature, and cultural colonialism Patrick Colm Hogan	165–172
The future of an allusion Gerald C. Cupchik	173–181
The symptoms of science in studies of literature: An uneasy prognosis Don Kuiken	182–193

Subjects

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

Applied linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

Main BIC Subject

DSA: Literary theory

Main BISAC Subject

LIT006000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory