Empirical Studies of Literature : : Proceedings of the Second IGEL-Conference (1989).

• Author: Ibsch, Elrud.
• TeilnehmendeR: Schram, Dick H.; Steen, Gerard.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1991.; ©1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (462 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Opening Address: An oral introduction -- Empirical studies in literature and the media: Perspectives for the nineties -- Questions of method -- READING -- Expert readers before 'Before the law' -- Unity in the esthetic process -- Associations in the reading process -- 'Going on the word': An aspect of fundamentalist text practice -- Effect and reminding in literary text processing -- Linguistic competence and poetic text processing -- Across time and place: Cultural-historical knowledge and personal experience in appreciation of literature -- Differences between oral and literary discourse: The effect of pragmatic information on recognition memory -- Stimulus and temperament as determinants of imaginative reactions to texts -- The literary reading process: A relevance theory perspective -- Reading and judging literary reviews as a culturally determined activity -- How can literary pragmaticists develop empirical methods? The problem of modal and evaluative expressions in literary texts -- Constraints of mappability in metaphor comprehension -- Empirical research on metaphor in literature -- The literary situational-action model and the reading process -- INSTITUTIONS -- Literary institutions: The application of literary theories and sociological concepts -- The modus operandi of literary reviewers -- Parents and the acquisition of books: The use of information channels -- Can the theory of consumer behavior explain the choices made by buyers of literary books? -- The uses of literary classifications -- Publishing literature and romance: An inquiry into Bourdieu's thesis on differences in characteristics of producers of cultural goods -- Canonicity and literary institutions -- The profession of filmmakers: Determinants of careers in the art.

Conditions of the critical assessment of literature: Some theses and empirical data on the interplay of social contexts, actions, and values -- TEACHING -- The social function of teaching German literature in Korea -- Reading in context: The impact of feminist scholarship -- The testing of teaching methods: A comparative approach -- Subverting the literary system: Nonhegemonic literary socialization -- Creativity in literary scholars -- Literatur in der Handlungsforschung -- Vorschläge zur Verbesserung des Literaturunterrichts in Japan -- Processing of sound and image in children's television programmes -- Literature re-read in the classroom: The perspective of the literary act -- Communication about literature in the classroom -- THEORY -- Content-analysis and 'experimental' methods in literary study: Scientific twins or opponents? -- The empirical theory of literature and systems theory -- Changing the canon: A systems theoretical approach -- Does an empirical science of literature need metatheoretical discussion? Yes, but - some answers -- Chaos theory, strange attractors, and the laws of literary history -- The construction of object-theories of empirical sciences in general from and for non-scientific practice and its possible application to empirical studies of literature -- Ambiguity in literary conceptualizations: The case of 'world' -- Die Interpretation literarischer Texte aus der Sicht einer empirischen Literaturwissenschaft -- Literary systems as self-organizing systems -- PANEL DISCUSSION -- The structure of the literary field and the homogeneity of cultural choices -- List of contributors.