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.