The psychology and sociology of literature : in honor of Elrud Ibsch /

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...

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Other Authors: Ibsch, Elrud, Schram, Dick H., Steen, Gerard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2001
Series:Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 35.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: empirical study of literature: Psychology, sociology, and other disciplines / Dick Schram / Gerard Steen
  • Literary creativity / Norbert Groeben
  • Qualitative methods in studying text reception / Margrit Schreier
  • Agency, plot, and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension / Arthur C. Graesser / Bianca Klettke
  • Time in narrative comprehension: A cognitive perspective / Rolf A. Zwaan / Robert A. Stanfield / Carol J. Madden
  • Old readers: Slow readers or expert readers? / Katinka Dijkstra
  • What we know about reading poetry: Theoretical positions and empirical research / David Ian Hanauer
  • renaissance perspective on the empirical study of literature: An example from psychophysiology / Johan F. Hoorn
  • rhetoric of metaphor: Conceptual and linguistic metaphor and the psychology of literature / Gerard Steen
  • Irony and its discontent / Rachel Giora
  • Psychoanalysts and daydreaming / Willie van Peer / Ingrid Stoeger
  • Back from the grave: Reinstating the catharsis concept in the psychology of reception / Brigitte Scheele
  • How to make alle Menschen Bruder: Literature in a multicultural and multiform society / Jemeljan Hakemulder
  • "Sad autumn" and cultural representations: A comparative study of Japanese and Israeli "autumn" / Ziva Ben-Porat
  • fragmentation of the media audience / Kees van Rees / Koen van Eijck
  • Bypassing the author: Two examples of reading interactive stories / Sarita Dev / Ed Tan
  • Readers and readings behavior in the past: The question is: What is the question? / Jose de Kruif / Joost Kloek
  • empirical study of careers in literature and the arts / Susanne Janssen
  • Stories and social structure: A structural perspective on literature in society / Wouter de Nooy
  • Quotations expressing the valuative stands of literary reviewers / Hugo Verdaasdonk.