UID:
almafu_9959240601802883
Umfang:
vi, 478 p. :
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ill.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-16170-9
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9786612161704
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90-272-9718-5
Serie:
Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature, v. 35
Inhalt:
The Psychology and Sociology of Literature is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora, Norbert Groeben, Colin Martindale, David Miall, Willie van Peer, Kees van Rees, Siegfried Schmidt, Hugo Verdaasdonk, and Rolf Zwaan. Topics include literature and the reading process; the role of poetic language, metaphor, and irony; cathartic and Freudian effects; literature and creativity; the career of the literary author; literature and culture; literature and multicultural society, literature and the mass media; literature and the internet; and literature and history. An introduction by the editors situates the empirical study of literature within an academic context. The chapters are all invited and refereed contributions, collected to honor the scholarship and retirement of professor Elrud Ibsch, of the Free University of Amsterdam. Together they represent the state of the art in the empirical study of literature, a movement in literary studies which aims to produce reliable and valid scientific knowledge about literature as a means of verbal communication in its cultural context. Elrud Ibsch was one of the pioneers in Europe to promote this approach to literature some 25 years ago, and this volume takes stock of what has happened since. The Psychology and Sociology of Literature presents an invaluable overview of the results, promises, gaps, and needs of the empirical study of literature. It addresses social scientists as well as scholars in the humanities who are interested in literature as discourse.
Anmerkung:
The Psychology and Sociology of Literature -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- The empirical study of literature -- Literary creativity -- Qualitative methods in studyingtext reception -- Agency,plot,and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension -- Time in narrative comprehension -- Old readers -- What we know about reading poetry -- A renaissance perspective on the empirical study of literature -- A rhetoric of metaphor -- Irony and its discontent -- Psychoanalysts and daydreaming -- Back from the grave -- How to make alle Menschen Brüder -- "Sad autumn "and cultural representations -- The fragmentation of the media audience -- Bypassing the author -- Readers and reading behavior in the past -- The empirical study of careers in literature and the arts -- Stories and social structure -- Quotations expressing the valuative stands of literary reviewers -- The proper place of humanism -- An evolutionary framework for literary reading -- High and popular culture from the viewpoints of psychology and cultural studies -- Operative fictions -- List of contributors -- Subject index -- Name Index -- The series UTRECHT PUBLICATIONS IN GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE.
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-58811-024-9
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-272-2224-X
Sprache:
Englisch
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