UID:
kobvindex_HPB1280945383
Format:
1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:
9783839458808
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3839458803
Series Statement:
Lettre
Content:
What makes a reading experience powerful? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to elucidate the effects and reader responses to investigate just that. The thirteen contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects - topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Experiencing Powerful Prose --
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Part I Emotional Experiences: Textual Features Eliciting Positive, Negative or Mixed Emotions --
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A Psycho-Biological Approach to Suspense and Horror: Triggers of Emotion in a Passage from Lewis's The Monk --
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Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Menage Romance as Digital Literature --
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Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without Us --
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Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard's Crash --
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Part II Coming to the Fore: The Subtle Influence of Rhythm, Sounds, and Sensory Representations --
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Lives and Deaths of Gatsby: A Semantic Reading of a Key Passage in a Powerful Text --
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Introducing Jane: The Power of the Opening --
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Performing Rhythm Through Enunciation: Prose Versus Poetry --
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The Pictorial Paradigm of La Vallee: A Text-Image Reading of the Incipit of The Mysteries of Udolpho --
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Part III Readers, Characters, Authors: Relations Formed by Textual Features --
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The Nature of the Agonistic in a Pragmatics of Fiction --
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The Relevance of Turning a Page: Monotony and Complexity in §25 of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King --
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The Language of Engagement and the Projection of Storyworld Possible Selves in Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives --
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"Smuggling in Accidental Poetry": Cognitive and Stylistic Strategies of a Stammering Teen in David Mitchell's Black Swan Green --
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Contributors --
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Editors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.1515/9783839458808
URL:
https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8679873b-de0c-42ad-ada5-37ac5a8470d5