Part of
The Psychology and Sociology of Literature: In honor of Elrud IbschEdited by Dick Schram and Gerard J. Steen
[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 35] 2001
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Dick Schram and Gerard J. Steen
[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 35] 2001
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Prefacevii
The empirical study of literature: Psychology, sociology, and other disciplines
Literary creativity
Qualitative methods in studying text reception
Agency, plot, and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension
Time in narrative comprehension: A cognitive perspective
Old readers: Slow readers or expert readers?
What we know about reading poetry: Theoretical positions and empirical research
A renaissance perspective on the empirical study of literature: An example from psychophysiology
A rhetoric of metaphor: Conceptual and linguistic metaphor and the psychology of literature
Irony and its discontent
Psychoanalysts and daydreaming
Back from the grave: Reinstating the catharsis concept in the psychology of reception
How to make alle Menschen Brüder: Literature in a multicultural and multiform society
“Sad autumn” and cultural representations: A comparative study of Japanese and Israeli “autumn”
The fragmentation of the media audience
Bypassing the author: Two examples of reading interactive stories
Readers and reading behavior in the past: The question is: What is the question?
The empirical study of careers in literature and the arts
Stories and social structure: A structural perspective on literature in society
Quotations expressing the valuative stands of literary reviewers
The proper place of humanism: Qualitative versus scientific studies of literature
An evolutionary framework for literary reading
High and popular culture from the viewpoints of psychology and cultural studies
Operative fictions: The fabric of societies
List of contributors
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