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Author Representations in Literary Reading.
Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Linguistic approaches to literature ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author Representations in Literary Reading; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Theoretical positions towards the author concept; 1.1 Death of the Author; 1.1.2 Intentional Fallacy; 1.1.3 Narrator vs. Author; 1.1.4 Implied Author; 1.2 Resurrection of the Author; 1.2.1 Feminist and postcolonial approaches; 1.2.2 False identities; 1.2.3 Profession: writer and personality; 1.3 Reception aesthetics; 1.4 Discourse theory; 1.4.1 Author intent and attitude; 1.4.2 Literary comprehension; 1.5 Empirical research in authorial representation.
- 1.5.1 Reading satirical stories1.5.2 Understanding metaphors; 1.5.3 Reading strategies; 1.5.4 Reading in an educational context; 1.6 Taking position; 1.6.1 Motivation; 1.6.2 Aims and objectives; 1.6.3 Terminology; 1.6.4 Assumptions; 2. Author inferences in thinking aloud; 2.1 Methodological considerations on the think-aloud method; 2.2 An exploratory study: inference categories; 2.2.1 Method; 2.2.2 A first impression; 2.3 Protocol analysis; 2.3.1 Transcribing and segmenting; 2.3.2 Defining inference categories and setting up a coding scheme.
- 2.3.3 Coding protocols: procedures and intercoder reliability2.4 Protocol analysis and post-reading tasks; 2.4.1 Results of protocol analysis; 2.4.2 Factors instruction, text and reader expertise; 2.4.3 Results of post-reading tasks; 2.5 Discussion; 2.5.1 Reader-generated author inferences; 2.5.2 Effects of factors on inference generation; 2.5.3 Conceptual and methodological implications; 3. Reading as joint pretence; 3.1 Theoretical considerations on the reading of fiction; 3.1.1 Speech act theories; 3.1.3 Limitations of the game of make-believe; 3.2 Selection of materials: a pilot study.
- 3.2.1 Method3.3 Effects of text manipulation on author inferences reports (Experiment 1); 3.3.1 Method; 3.4 Results; 3.4.1 A first impression; 3.4.2 Manipulation check of text stimulus; 3.4.3 Readers and default assumptions about the implied author; 3.5 Discussion; 4. On-line measurement of author inferences through affective priming I; 4.1 Affective priming paradigm; 4.1.1 Two studies; 4.1.2 Underlying mechanisms; 4.1.3 Possibilities and limitations; 4.2 Three pilot studies; 4.2.1 Selection of text primes; 4.2.2 Pilot study I: Results and conclusion; 4.2.3 Selection of targets.
- 4.2.4 Pilot Study II: Results and conclusion4.2.5 Selection of author prime; 4.2.6 Pilot Study III: Results and conclusion; 4.3 Effects of author information on the generation of author inferences (Experiment 2); 4.3.1 Method; 4.4 Results; 4.4.1 Manipulation check of author prime; 4.4.2 Affective priming effects and reading times; 4.4.3 Post-reading measurements; 4.5 Discussion; 5. On-line measurement of author inferences through affective priming II; 5.1 Effects of detailed author information on the generation of author inferences (Experiment 3); 5.1.1 Method; 5.2 Results.