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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 165–178

Chapter 9
In defence of introspection

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Article outline
  • 1.The problem of observing reading
  • 2.The nature of introspection
  • 3.Introspecting a poem
  • 4. A retrospective on the argument
  • References
Published online: 8 February 2021
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