Directions in Empirical Literary Studies

In honor of Willie van Peer

Editors

Sonia Zyngier | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Marisa Bortolussi | University of Alberta

Anna Chesnokova | Kyiv National Linguistic University

Jan Auracher | University of Munich

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Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology, psychology, linguistics and literature, all focusing on how empirical studies have impacted these different areas. Theoretical issues are discussed and solid methods are presented. Some chapters also show the relation between empirical studies and new technology, examining developments in computer science and corpus linguistics. This book takes a global perspective, with contributors from many different countries, both senior and junior researchers. Broad in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, it contributes with the state-of-the-art developments in the field.

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.5

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. ix–xii

Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives

Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunction

Uri Margolin | pp. 7–19

Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validity

Geoff M. Hall | pp. 21–34

Notes toward a new philology

Donald C. Freeman | pp. 35–47

A theory of expressive reading

Don Kuiken | pp. 49–68

Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature

Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary response

Peter Dixon and Marisa Bortolussi | pp. 75–87

Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative

David S. Miall | pp. 89–102

Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives

Yeshayahu Shen | pp. 103–111

Narrative empathy and inter-group relations

János László and Ildiko Smogyvary | pp. 113–125

Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies

Raymond Mar, Maja Djikic and Keith Oatley | pp. 127–137

Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognition

Frank Hakemulder | pp. 139–153

Part III. Computers and the humanities

An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions

Arthur C. Graesser and Brent Morgan | pp. 161–173

Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary Texts

Max M. Louwerse, Nick Benesh and Bin Zhang | pp. 175–191

Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics

Michael Kimmel | pp. 193–210

Searching for style in modern American poetry

David L. Hoover | pp. 211–227

The laws governing the history of poetry

Colin Martindale | pp. 229–242

Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms.

Bill Louw | pp. 243–264

Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation

Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical variety

Vander Viana, A. Giordani and Sonia Zyngier | pp. 271–282

Language allergy: Myth or reality

Mariya Sergeyeva and Anna Chesnokova | pp. 283–295

Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings

Vladimir Yepishev | pp. 297–308

Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea

Jan Prasil, Maria Dudusova and Jan Auracher | pp. 309–315

The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in Poland

Maciej Maryl | pp. 317–328

Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in English

Walter Nash | pp. 329–342

About the contributors | pp. 343–350

Index of authors | pp. 351–354

Index of keywords | pp. 355–357

“The essays in this volume represent the most advanced and intriguing work being done today in the empirical study of literature. How fitting that they are published in honor of Willie van Peer, an intellectual pioneer whose scholarship will continue to have a powerful effect on criticism and philosophy in years to come.”

Denis Dutton , University of Canterbury, New Zealand

“This collection draws together some of the most exciting research underway in empirical literary studies. There could be no more fitting tribute to van Peer's work in this field. Drawing on Discourse Studies, Narratology, Reader Response, Poetics and a Sociology of Literature, the essays brought together in this volume demonstrate the range of empirical studies and its contributions to literary theory. The structure of the volume negotiates this breadth through innovative section divisions that present work by senior researchers through the introductory and contextual comments of emerging scholars. This volume makes a significant contribution to empirical literary studies and serves as an excellent introduction for those with developing interests in the field.”

James Gifford , University of Victoria, Canada

“Here is a volume that treats readers to a discovery tour in empirical studies of literature. Words like fragility, sympathy, imagining, metaphors, and novelty, resound in this volume. They police the scope of studies of literature. Stories make us more aware of the real world than any documentary truth. Only through literature can we enter somebody else's feelings. The name for it is compassion. Many of the international experts who contribute here share that goal of unpacking the mechanisms of compassion in stories, often through experiments and text manipulations. Nothing they write is without interest. In this sense, this is more than a Festschrift, and for good reason. You come away from the book with the sense of having caught sight of a beacon.”

Robert Hogenraad, Catholic University of Louvain

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