Empirical Approaches
to Literature
Proceedings of the Fourth Biannual Conference of the
international Society for the Empirical Study of Literature - IGEL
Budapest, August 1994
Edited by
Gebhard Rusch
LUMIS-Publications, Siegen University, Siegen 1995
Table of Contents
Preface
Presidents' Addresses
László Halasz (IGEL-President 1992-1994
IGEL - Seven Years After
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (IGEL-President 1994-1996)
IGEL - Aims and Objectives for 1994-96
Chapter 1. Empirical
Steen P. Larsen & Reinhold Viehoff
Introduction: Empirical" - What does it Mean in IGEL-Studies?
Peter Dixon & Marisa Bortolussi
The Reader, the Narrator and the Characters:
A Cue-Interaction Model of Characterization
Peter Swirski
The Role of Game Theory in Literary Studies
Marcy H. Dorfman
Evaluating the Interpretive Community
Don Kuiken & David S. Miall
Procedures in Think Aloud Studies: Contributions to the Phenomenology of Literary Response
Eva M. Thury & Alexander Friedlander
The Impact of Expertise:
The Role of Experience in Reading Literary Texts
Reinhold Viehoff
Literary Genres as Cognitive Schemata
Kees van Rees
The Effect of Critical Attention on Debutants' Carrers
David Fishelov
Studying Literary Genres: The Empirical Angle
William F. Brewer
Discourse Force and Empirical Studies of Literature
Robert de Beaugrande
The Status of Literary Communication in
'Post-classical' Theories of Language and Discourse
Gebhard Rusch
The Notion of"Empirical": Knowing How
Siegfried J. Schmidt
What can "Empirical" Mean in a Constructivist Context?
10 Considerations
Chapter 2. Literary System
Peter M. Hejl, Paisley Livingston & Gebhard Rusch
Introduction: Systems-Theories in the Humanities
Bonghi Cha
Literary Communication and the Reception of Foreign Literature
- Reception and Concretization of 'Critical Realism' in Korea
Toshio Ohtaki
Recent Tendencies of the Literature-System in Japan
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Systems Thinking in North American Literary Studies
Achim Barsch
The Literary System and its Systemtheoretical Construction -
The Case of Levels of Action
Henk de Berg
Empirical Science of Literature, Literary Historiography,
and the Problem of Textual Analysis
Matthias Prangel
Can Written Texts 'Speak' to Us? Historical Contextuality
and the Problem of Understanding Texts
Niels Werber
Evolution of Literary Communication instead of
Social History of Literature
Trevor Ponech
Literature and the Social-Psychology of Violence
Barbara Graves & André Renaud
What Expert Performance Reveals about the Literary System
Brigitta Welzel
Programmatic Discourse and Film Production in the German 'Third Reich'
Ulrich Meyszies
Literary Systems in Modern Society.
The two German Literary Systems before the Wall came down
Chapter 3. Canonization
Andreas Poltermann
Introduction: The Study of Canonization
from an Empirical Point of View
Friederike Worthmann
Interest and Scope of Studies in Canonization, or: What do We Want to Know?
Mette Hjort
Privilege and the Politics of Recognition
Marita Keilson-Lauritz
The Making of the Gay Canon
Jemeljan Hakemulder
What Literature Does to Society.
The Effect of a Life-Style Component
Maj Asplund Carlsson
From Max to Mio. The Canon of Children's Literature
in Swedish Preschools
Stephen Bonnycastle
Canon-Formation in Contemporary Literary Studies.
An Inquiry into How Novels Written Since 1960
Become Canonized
Chapter 4. Emotion
Gerald C Cupchik
Introduction: Discussion Paper for Workshop on Emotions
Sara Davis & Els Andringa
Narrative Structure and Emotional Response
Bruce F. Katz
A Model of Positive Affective Response to Suspense in Stories
Adam Muller
Quasi-Emotions, Fiction, and Belief
Gerard Steen
Cognitive and Ernotive Properties of Metaphors
Reuven Tsur
Semantic Processes and Emotional Quality in Poetry
Els Andringa
Narrative Complexity and Emotional Involvement. Differences
between Expert and Non-Expert Readers
David S. Miall & Don Kuiken
Feeling and the Three Phases of Literary Response
Jose Sanders
Affective Functions of Perspective in
Biblical Narratives and News Reports
William F. Brewer
The Problem of Rereading for
Theories of Story Enjoyment
Lászlo Halasz
Reinterpretation and Personal Meaning in Literary Understanding
Chapter 5. Text
Willie van Peer
The Empirical Study of (Literary) Texts
Norbert Groeben & Margrit Schreier
Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Aspects of the Concept of
Literature (Taking the Polyvalence Convention as an Example)
Yeshayahu Shen
Metaphorical Comparisons and Principles of Categorization
Dorthe Berntsen & John M. Kennedy
Contradictions in Literary Texts: A Means of Expressing Attitudes
David Hanauer
The Effects of Educational Background
on Literary and Poetic Text Categorization Judgements
Arthur C. Graesser, Max A. Kassler, Katinka Dijkstra,
Roger J. Kreuz, RolfA. Zwaan, and Bonnie McLain Allen
Comprehending Novel Mental Models of Time in Einstein's Dreams
Janos Lász1o
Processing Modality of Literary Narratives
David S. Miall & Don Kuiken
Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire
Paul A. Fortier
The Role of 'Memory in Literary Studies