Empirical Approaches to Literature and Aesthetics

euz /f Roger /i J. Nealy /f Mary /i Sue

• ORIENTATION TO THE ISSUESThree Obstacles in Empirical Research on Aesthetic and Literacy ComprehensionThe Strained Relationship Between the Empiricist's Notion of Validity and the Hermeneutician's Notion of RevelanceMedia: The Coupling of Cognition and CommunicationASPECTS OF TEXTSThe Effect of Verb Choice on Causal AttributionThe Influence of Working Memory Constraints on Pronomial ReferenceFigurative Language Occurrence and Co-Occurrence in Contemporary LiteratureThe Effects of Line Length on the Psychological Reality of the ParagraphEFFECTS OF PERSPECTIVESParticipatory Aspects of Narrative UnderstandingPerspectivation and Sympathy: Effects of Narrative Point of ViewTEXT STRUCTURE AND INFERENCESRecalling the Three Bears After 10 Years: Exploring New Vistas for Discourse and Text Processing Models Through the Study of FolktalesCausal Inferences in the Comprehension of Literary TextsA Taxomony of Inference Categories That May Be Generated During the Comprehension of Literary TextsTHE ROLE OF AFFECTImaginative Processes in Literary ComprehensionThe Role of Emotion, Empathy, and Text Structure in Children's and Adults' Narrative Text ComprehensionGood and Bad Story Endings and Story CompletenessEmotions in Poetry: What are They and How Do We Find Them?PERSPECTIVES ON POETRYHow We Talk When We Talk About Love: Metaphorical Concepts and Understanding Love PoetryPhonetics and the Empirical Study of PoetryLiterary Aspects of Reading and Thinking Out LoudPsychophysiology and Literary Processing: ERPs to Semantic and Phonological Deviations in Reading Small VersesLEVELS OF EXPERTISEThe Mental Processes of Professional Actors as Examined Through Self-Report, Experimental Investigation and Think-Aloud ProtocolGeneral and Personal Meaning in Literary ReadingA Cognitive Study of Literary ExpertiseFactors in Transcaction with Literature: An Analysis of Student Response JournalsOn the Processing of Political EditorialsEDUCATIONAL ISSUESEmpowering the Reader: Literary Response and Classroom LearningLiteracy as Dialogic Involvement: Methodological Implications for the Empirical Study of Literary ReadingA View of Reading Practices in the Intermediate Grades: Treatment of Discourse TypesApproaches to the Teaching of Literature: A National Survey of Literary Education in Dutch Secondary SchoolsCULTURAL FACTORSHow Professional Readers Differ from Leisure-Time Readers: An Empirical Investigation into Differences in Intrinsic and Social Aspects of ReadingContemporary Literature and the Embedded Consumer Culture: The Case of Updike's RabbitTransformation of Genre in Nigerian Fiction: The Case of the Village NovelMemorable Books: Recall of Reading and Its Personal ContextParental Influence on Children's Reading PatternsPersonal and Nonpersonal Narrativity in ReadingMETATHEORYThree Forms of Knowledge in Empirical Studies of the Past: How Empirical Can Literary Historiography Be?Popular Fiction - A Subsystem of the Literary System? The Problem of Literary EvaluationIndexes