Powerful Prose : How Textual Features Impact Readers /

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 p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boisseau, Maryvonne (Contribuidor), Chollier, Christine (Contribuidor), Kavanagh, Ciarán (Contribuidor), Labourg, Alice (Contribuidor), Martinez, Maria-Angeles (Contribuidor), Mertens, Mahlu (Contribuidor), Pager-McClymont, Kimberley (Contribuidor), Pöhls, R. L. Victoria (Contribuidor), P̲hls, R. L. Victoria (Editor ), Quassdorf, Sixta (Contribuidor), Robert-Murail, Constance (Contribuidor), Utudji, Mariane (Contribuidor, Editor ), Valovirta, Elina (Contribuidor), Wenzel, Peter (Contribuidor), Wood, Tahir (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2021]
Colección:Lettre
Temas:
Literature > Appreciation > Psychological aspects.
Literature > History and criticism.
Littérature > Appréciation > Aspect psychologique.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature
Culture.
Language.
Linguistics.
Literary Studies.
Psychology.
Theory of Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Experiencing Powerful Prose
  • Part I Emotional Experiences: Textual Features Eliciting Positive, Negative or Mixed Emotions
  • A Psycho-Biological Approach to Suspense and Horror: Triggers of Emotion in a Passage from Lewis's The Monk
  • Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Menage Romance as Digital Literature
  • Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without Us
  • Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard's Crash
  • Part II Coming to the Fore: The Subtle Influence of Rhythm, Sounds, and Sensory Representations
  • Lives and Deaths of Gatsby: A Semantic Reading of a Key Passage in a Powerful Text
  • Introducing Jane: The Power of the Opening
  • Performing Rhythm Through Enunciation: Prose Versus Poetry
  • The Pictorial Paradigm of La Vallee: A Text-Image Reading of the Incipit of The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Part III Readers, Characters, Authors: Relations Formed by Textual Features
  • The Nature of the Agonistic in a Pragmatics of Fiction
  • The Relevance of Turning a Page: Monotony and Complexity in §25 of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
  • The Language of Engagement and the Projection of Storyworld Possible Selves in Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives
  • "Smuggling in Accidental Poetry": Cognitive and Stylistic Strategies of a Stammering Teen in David Mitchell's Black Swan Green
  • Contributors
  • Editors
  • Index

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