Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies / / ed. by Donald Kuiken, Arthur M. Jacobs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Appel, Markus,; Barnes, Jennifer L.,; Billington, Josie,; Black, Jessica E.,; Blohm, Stefan,; Bruhn, Mark J.,; Bálint, Katalin,; Castiglione, Davide,; Dodell-Feder, David,; Douglas, Shawn,; Elfenbein, Andrew,; Fialho, Olivia,; Glicksohn, Joseph,; Goodblatt, Chanita,; Hakemulder, Frank,; Hanauer, David,; Herrmann, J. Berenike,; Hoeken, Hans,; Horton, William S.,; Jacobs, Arthur M.,; Kaakinen, Johanna K.,; Khoo, Guan Soon,; Knoop, Christine A.,; Kraxenberger, Maria,; Krieken, Kobie van,; Kucirkova, Natalia,; Kuijpers, Moniek M.,; Kuiken, Don,; Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina,; Levine, Sarah R.,; Lüdtke, Jana,; Magliano, Joseph P.,; Mak, Marloes,; Mar, Raymond A.,; McCarthy, Kathryn S.,; Oatley, Keith,; Oliver, Mary Beth,; Peer, Willie van,; Piper, Andrew,; Reed, Olivia S.,; Richter, Tobias,; Salgaro, Massimo,; Sanders, José,; Scharinger, Mathias,; Sopčák, Paul,; Steenberg, Mette,; Tamir, Diana I.,; Tan, Ryan RuiYang,; Tukachinsky Forster, Rebecca Riva,; Willems, Roel M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Jacobs, Arthur M.,; Kuiken, Donald,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Reference
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 581 p.)

This handbook reviews efforts to increase the use of empirical methods in studies of the aesthetic and social effects of literary reading. The reviewed research is expansive, including extension of familiar theoretical models to novel domains (e.g., educational settings); enlarging empirical efforts...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Reflections and Prognoses
• Section I: Modes of Textual Representation
• Sound Shape and Sound Effects of Literary Texts
• Contextual Meaning-Making in Reading: The Role of Affect
• Mental Simulation during Literary Reading
• Constructing Mental Models in Literary Reading: The Role of Interpretive Inferences
• Section II: The Form and Function of Literariness
• Empirical Studies of Poetic Metaphor
• Foregrounding
• The Psychological and Social Effects of Literariness: Formal Features and Paratextual Information
• Section III: Social Effects of Literary Reading
• Children’s Reading for Pleasure with Digital Books
• Stories and Their Role in Social Cognition
• Character Engagement and Identification
• Section IV: Narrative Engagement and Experiential Depth
• Narrative Absorption: An Overview
• Openness, Reflective Engagement, and Self-Altering Literary Reading
• Meaningful Responses to Narrative Digital Media: Research from a Media Psychology Perspective
• Audience Reception of Tragic Entertainment and the Value of Cathartic Reflection
• Section V: Enhanced Social Well-Being
• Literary Reading and Mental Wellbeing
• Poetic Writing Research: The History, Methods, and Outcomes of Poetic (Auto) Ethnography
• Section VI: History, Theory, and Empirical Methods
• Computational Stylistics
• Philosophy of Science, Methodology, and Theory Development in Empirical Studies of Literary Experience
• The History of the Empirical Study of Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
• Contributors
• Subject Index
• Name Index