The psychology and sociology of literature : in honor of Elrud Ibsch / edited by Dick Schram, Gerard Steen.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Machine generated contents note: empirical study of literature: Psychology, sociology, and other disciplines / Dick Schram / Gerard Steen -- Literary creativity / Norbert Groeben -- Qualitative methods in studying text reception / Margrit Schreier -- Agency, plot, and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension / Arthur C. Graesser / Bianca Klettke -- Time in narrative comprehension: A cognitive perspective / Rolf A. Zwaan / Robert A. Stanfield / Carol J. Madden -- Old readers: Slow readers or expert readers? / Katinka Dijkstra -- What we know about reading poetry: Theoretical positions and empirical research / David Ian Hanauer -- renaissance perspective on the empirical study of literature: An example from psychophysiology / Johan F. Hoorn -- rhetoric of metaphor: Conceptual and linguistic metaphor and the psychology of literature / Gerard Steen -- Irony and its discontent / Rachel Giora -- Psychoanalysts and daydreaming / Willie van Peer / Ingrid Stoeger -- Back from the grave: Reinstating the catharsis concept in the psychology of reception / Brigitte Scheele -- How to make alle Menschen Bruder: Literature in a multicultural and multiform society / Jemeljan Hakemulder -- "Sad autumn" and cultural representations: A comparative study of Japanese and Israeli "autumn" / Ziva Ben-Porat -- fragmentation of the media audience / Kees van Rees / Koen van Eijck -- Bypassing the author: Two examples of reading interactive stories / Sarita Dev / Ed Tan -- Readers and readings behavior in the past: The question is: What is the question? / Jose de Kruif / Joost Kloek -- empirical study of careers in literature and the arts / Susanne Janssen -- Stories and social structure: A structural perspective on literature in society / Wouter de Nooy -- Quotations expressing the valuative stands of literary reviewers / Hugo Verdaasdonk.

The Psychology and Sociology of Literature is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora, Norbert Groeben, Colin Martindale, David Miall, Willie van Peer, Kees van Rees, Siegfried Schmidt, Hugo Verdaasdonk, and Rolf Zwaan. Topics include literature and the reading process; the role of poetic language, metaphor, and irony; cathartic and Freudian effects; literature and creativity; the car.

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