What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the question by investigating the effects and reader responses generated by selected extracts of literary prose. The twelve contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection explores a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects – topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.
Experiencing Powerful ProseSeiten 11 - 22 R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji Download Kapitel (PDF)
A Psycho-Biological Approach to Suspense and Horror: Triggers of Emotion in a Passage from Lewis''s The MonkSeiten 25 - 44 Peter Wenzel Download Kapitel (PDF)
Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital LiteratureSeiten 45 - 62 Elina Valovirta Download Kapitel (PDF)
Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without UsSeiten 63 - 76 Mahlu Mertens Download Kapitel (PDF)
Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard''s CrashSeiten 77 - 96 Ciarán Kavanagh Download Kapitel (PDF)
Lives and Deaths of Gatsby: A Semantic Reading of a Key Passage in a Powerful TextSeiten 99 - 110 Christine Chollier Download Kapitel (PDF)
Introducing Jane: The Power of the OpeningSeiten 111 - 128 Kimberley Pager-McClymont Download Kapitel (PDF)
Performing Rhythm Through Enunciation: Prose Versus PoetrySeiten 129 - 144 Maryvonne Boisseau Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Pictorial Paradigm of La Vallée: A Text-Image Reading of the Incipit of The Mysteries of UdolphoSeiten 145 - 164 Alice Labourg Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Nature of the Agonistic in a Pragmatics of FictionSeiten 167 - 188 Tahir Wood Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Relevance of Turning a Page: Monotony and Complexity in §25 of David Foster Wallace''s The Pale KingSeiten 189 - 206 Sixta Quassdorf Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Language of Engagement and the Projection of Storyworld Possible Selves in Roberto Bolaño''s The Savage DetectivesSeiten 207 - 230 Maria-Angeles Martinez Download Kapitel (PDF)
"Smuggling in Accidental Poetry": Cognitive and Stylistic Strategies of a Stammering Teen in David Mitchell''s Black Swan GreenSeiten 231 - 248 Constance Robert-Murail Download Kapitel (PDF)
