IGEL Conference 2000, Toronto

OFFICIAL PROGRAM LEGEND: EM=Emmanuel College
NF=Northrop Frye Hall
IGEL 2000 VC=Victoria College
MONDAY, JULY 31

3:00 - 6:00


REGISTRATION ( VC Foyer )
6:00 - 7:30

VC 112 (Alumni Hall)

1. ( VC 112 - Alumni Hall )
WELCOMING REMARKS
INVITED ADDRESS:
Marcel Danesi
Semiosis and aesthesis: From signs to de-signs in artistic expression
Chair- Gerald Cupchik
7:30 - 9:302. RECEPTION ( VC Foyer )

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1


EM 1 EM 108 NF 119 NF113
9:00 - 10:30 3.
WORKSHOP -
Metaphor identification and analysis, recognition, and processing

Raymond Gibbs & Gerard Steen

4.
PAPER SESSION -
PSYCHODYNAMIC
PROCESSES:
Chair- Albert Rothenberg

Perception of women in literature and author pathology
Anne Martindale

Family background and motivation for literary creativity
Albert Rothenberg

A comparative study of literary and Freudian text processing
Laszlo Halasz

5.
PAPER SESSION -
READING PROCESSES I:
Chair- Garry Leonard

Involvement, distance, and appreciation for fictional characters
Elly Konijn & Johan Hoorn

"Reading to mom..." - A literary reading experience inside a matriarchal family
Andrea Claudia Valente

Modernism and modernity
Garry Leonard

6.
SYMPOSIUM -
INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RECEPTION OF LITERATURE:
Chair- Jèmeljan Hakemulder

Literature in a multicultural society
Jèmeljan Hakemulder

The impact of discussing versus reading literary texts
Willie van Peer & Aikaterini Nousi

The reception of a Turkish literary text by Turkish-Dutch and Dutch pupils
Dick Schram & Cor Geljon

10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:00 7. ( EM 1 )

INVITED ADDRESS:
Keith Oatley
Writing is thinking: Reading is feeling
Chair- Gerald Cupchik
12:00-1:00 LUNCH (VC 112- Alumni Hall)

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1

EM 1 EM 108 NF 119 NF113
1:00-3:00 8.
PAPER SESSION -
READING PROCESSES II:
Chair - Art Graesser

Who wants what in a story: The effects of reader's impressions of the characters
Scotty Craig, Arthur Graesser, & Mary Cregger

Narratorial relevance and character goals
Peter Dixon & Marisa Bortolussi

Thematic processing of narrative text
Shannon Whitten & Arthur Graesser

Experi/mental models or how we
learn from literary fictions
Peter Swirski

9.
SYMPOSIUM -
CONDITIONS FOR THE EFFECTS OF LITERATURE:
Chair- Jèmeljan Hakemulder

Becoming what we behold: A feeling for literature
David Miall & Don Kuiken

The trouble with catharsis
Dolf Zillmann

Psychoanalytic predictions of reading behavior
Ingrid Stöger & Willie van Peer
Anansi and the Spider-haters: Can a folk hero change attitudes?
Michael Wiseman & Willie van Peer

10.
PAPER SESSION -
READING PROCESSES III:
Chair- Margrit Schreier

Modes of fiction: Recipients' views of fact and fiction
Margrit Schreier, N. Groeben,
J. Rothmund, & I. Nickel-Bacon

The problem of rereading for psychological theories of narrative suspense
William Brewer

Reading Holocaust literature
Elrud Ibsch & Margrit Schreier

11.
PAPER SESSION -
CULTURAL IDENTITY:
Chair- Janos Laszlo

Imagining cultural diversity in the German media
Elka Tshernokoshewa

The role of literature in constructing and maintaining historical narratives
Janos Laszlo

Deviant Typology in Persian Literature
Rahmatallah Seddigh Servestani

3:00-3:15 COFFEE BREAK ( VC Foyer)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1
EM1 EM 108 NF 119 NF113
3:15-5:30
12.
SYMPOSIUM -
GLOBALIZATION:
Chair- Gebhard Rusch

Globalization of communication and media
Gebhard Rusch

Global media generations ­
An Austrian perspective
Theo Hug

Internet theory from a constructivist perspective
Martin Werle

Internet communications and anonymity: A critical view on the loss of subjectivity
Reinhold Viehoff

Media memories in American voices: GMG 2000
Matthew D. Payne

13.
SYMPOSIUM -
REPUTATION FORMATION AND HIERARCHY-MAKING IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS: Chair- Susanne Janssen

The Reception of Proust and his works in The Netherlands,
1920-1997
Sabine van Wesemael

The careers of authors and critics in the cultural field
Nel van Dijk

Who are judging the arts in public? Attitudes, careers, and roles of journalistic art critics in The Netherlands, 1968-2000
Susanne Janssen

Cultural capital, cultural hierarchies, and the canon discussion in the USA and
The Netherlands
Kees van Rees

Types of expertise attributed to reviewers of literature
Hugo Verdaasdonk

14.
SYMPOSIUM -
TEXT, PERFORMANCE, AND REFLECTION: METHODS OF ACCESS TO LITERARY READING:
Chair- Don Kuiken

Phenomenological methods for articulating types of reading experience
Don Kuiken

Language and discourse structure during the reading of literary texts
Art Graesser

Content analysis and lexical statistics as tools for the empirical study of literature
Colin Martindale

The phenomenology of absorption in
a literary text
Ingrid Braun & Gerald Cupchik

15.
PAPER SESSION -
CROSS-CULTURAL DYNAMICS:
Chair- Achim Barsch

Motivations to study literature and interests in reading in different cultures and societies: Brazil and Germany in comparison
Achim Barsch & Sonia Zyngier

Reading literature and reading for literature: The Brazilian concept of literary awareness
Marcello Pinto

Form symbolism among Danish, Slovenian,
and Japanese subjects
John Kennedy, Chang Hong Liu, Bradford Challis, & Victor Kennedy

Knowledge explosion as a development explosion:
A sociological appraisal
Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi


5:30-7:00 16. (VC 213)
PERFORMANCE PIECE (VC College Chapel)
The amateur and atelier in musical experience:
An experiment in embodied aesthetic education
Deanne Bogdan, Alan Stellings, & Brenda Enns

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2


EM 1 EM 108 NF 119
9:00 - 10:3017.
SYMPOSIUM -
THE NARRATIVE OF EMOTION:
Chair- Gerald Cupchik

Toward an affective rhetoric
Jim Averill

Shakespeare's invention of theater as a mental model of the world, a place of emotions and ethical reflection
Keith Oatley

Emotional narrative and psychological well-being
Nancy Stein & Tom Trabasso

18.
SYMPOSIUM -
LITERATURE AND PEOPLE'S LIVES:
Chair- Jèmeljan Hakemulder

Naivete and corruption: Empirical considerations
Michael DePaul

Life stories, literary aesthetics, and literary effects
Richard Gerrig

The sound of meaning
Michael Wiseman & Willie Van Peer

19.
PAPER SESSION -
READING PROCESSES IV:
Chair- David Fishelov

Embodied reading, reintegrating sensibility, and feminist pedagogy
Deanne Bogdan & Hilary Davis

The Golden apples of the sun: An exploratory investigation into the pre-eminence of emotion over cognition in moments of 'literary bliss'
Michael Burke

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun: Tenor, vehicle, and predicate in simile comprehension
David Fishelov

10:30-10:45COFFEE BREAK ( VC Foyer )
10:45-12:00 20. ( EM 1 )
INVITED ADDRESS:
Toward a comprehensive theory of drama appreciation
Dolf Zillmann
Chair- Peter Vorderer
12:00-1:00LUNCH ( VC112 - Alumni Hall)
1:00-3:0021.
SYMPOSIUM -
ENTERTAINING MEDIA:
Chair- Peter Vorderer

Recent developments in research on entertainment through media
Peter Vorderer

Television as communicative action
Sabine Trepte & Sina Zapfe

Para-social relationships with TV talk show hosts
Wiebke Sudhoff & Sabine Trepte

Para-social interactions with film characters in interactive TV-drama
Holger Schramm & Daniela Schluetz

22.
SYMPOSIUM -
HOW LITERATURE ENTERS LIFE:
Chair- Els Andringa

Literature as a spur to collective action
Elizabeth Long

Reading expressively through "tears of light"
David Miall & Don Kuiken

Reading the culture
Sara Davis

The fiction of the reality of fiction
Els Andringa

23.
PAPER SESSION -
READING PROCESSES V:
Chair- Aldo Nemesio

Literary research in complex models: Methodological and practical considerations
Sibylle Moser

Textual typology: A study of interruptions in the linearity of the act of reading
Aldo Nemesio

Literary expertise and analogical reasoning at multiple levels of text description
Barbara Graves

The processing of opaque poetic texts: Mechanisms of selection
Iris Yaron

23a. NF 113
SYMPOSIUM-
LITERARY RECEPTION IN INDIA WITH REFERENCE TO SPECIFIC TEXTS
Chair - Ashok Sachdeva

Tagore's "Binodoni"
Vandana Nagar

Literature, society, and governance
(The poetry of Kabir Das in an Indian context)
S.K. Bhatt

Recent Indo ­ Anglian poetry:
An empirical survey
Ashok Sachdeva

3:00-3:15COFFEE BREAK ( VC Foyer )
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2
EM 1 EM 108 NF 119
3:15-5:15












(4:15-5:15)

24.
SYMPOSIUM - (cont'd)
ENTERTAINING MEDIA:

Sex Symbol - Tech Toy? Exploring the attractiveness of Lara Croft
Christoph Klimmt & Peter Vorderer

Genres of interactive media entertainment: Theoretical considerations and users' perceptions
Silvia Knobloch & Tilo Hartmann-----------------------------------------


27.
MEMORIAL SESSION FOR
STEEN FOLKE LARSEN
Chair: Janos Laszlo

The impact of Steen's work and personality on the scientific thinking and personal lives of some IGEL members
Bill Brewer, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Laszlo Halasz, John Kennedy, Janos Laszlo, &
Colin Martindale

25.
PAPER SESSION -
CHANGES IN RECEPTION BEHAVIOR AND PREFERENCES:
Chair- Kees van Rees

Television viewing behavior of specific reader types, 1975-1995
Kees van Rees & Koen van Eijck

Heterogeneity in reading behavior: Changes between 1975 and 1995
Marc Verboord

A systematic content analysis of eight decades of best-selling mystery novels
Jennings Bryant, Lisa Mullikin, &
J. Alison Bryant

Changes in cultural repertoires: Overlaps between the choices made by different groups of movie-goers
Dorothee Verdaasdonk


26.
PAPER SESSION -
DISCUSSION OF SPECIFIC TEXTS:
Chair- Michelle Gadpaille

"The Lord will Whistle for the Fly": Allegory, allusion, and parable as social and cultural contexts in Joyce Carol Oates' "Where are you Going, Where have you Been?"
Robert Branda

Stratified reading: Gilles Deleuze on D. H. Lawrences's ''Apocalypse"
Mary Bryden

Pre-adolescent youth and adult interpretations of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
Marilyn Draheim

Visual rhetoric in Margaret Atwood's
"Alias Grace"
Michelle Gadpaille


5:30-6:3028.
BUSINESS MEETING (EM 1)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3


EM 1 NF 113 NF 119
9:00 - 10:3029.
PAPER SESSION -
THE WRITING PROCESS I:
Chair- Barbara Graves

On hamming it up: The differences between poets' and actors' recitations of verse.
Tom Barney

Making sense of poetry and making sense of art: From authorial intention to aesthetic form
Joan Peskin

Writing assessment through the lens of literary interpretation
Barbara Graves

30.
SYMPOSIUM -
EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE:
Chairs- David Miall & Willie van Peer

Evolution, speciation, and extinction of artistic and literary styles
Colin Martindale

On the origins of style
Willie van Peer

Lament and liminality
Ellen Dissanayake

31.
PAPER SESSION -
HORROR, NATURE, & SCENT
Chair- Gerald Cupchik

Tease or torment? Effects of teaser and traditional endings in contemporary horror films
Cynthia King

Exploring the meanings of nature through responses to advertisements
Anna Galeta & Gerald C. Cupchik

The scent of literature
Krista Phillips, Gerald Cupchik, &
Valorie Salimpoor

10:30-10:45COFFEE BREAK ( VC Foyer )
10:45-12:00 32. ( EM 1)
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
Emotion and meaning in the arts
Gerald C. Cupchik
Chair- Keith Oatley
12:00-1:00LUNCH ( VC 112- Alumni Hall)
1:00-3:0033.
SYMPOSIUM -
ADVERTISING SOCIETY:
Chair- Siegfried Schmidt

Advertising in search of a future
Siegfried Schmidt

Between use and abuse: Mediated subcultures in advertising
Christoph Jacke

Ads in disguise?
Sebastian Junger

Advertising confidence
Guido Zurstiege

34.
SYMPOSIUM-
EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE:
Chairs- David Miall & Willie van Peer

The first poetry? The stylistics of babytalk
David Miall

Hero and villain as human universals
Ian Jobling

Narrative and natural selection: Where
stories come from and why
Michele Scalise Sugiyama

The negotiation of scenarios in five novels of female development
Joseph Carroll

35.
PAPER SESSION -
THE WRITING PROCESS II:
Chair- Lenny Vos

How novices become poets: A study of first time poets in the Swedish literary field of the 1970's
Daan Vandenhaute

Poet's person and poet's creativity
Vladimir Koshkin, E. Kuzmina, & E. Bazhenova

Male and female writers and their sideline activities in the literary field
Lenny Vos

Reporting war: A test for journalists
Kingsley Ivan Evans



3:00-3:15COFFEE BREAK ( VC Foyer )
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3
EM 1 NF 113 NF 119
3:15-5:30












36.
PAPER SESSION -
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF RECEPTION AND INTERACTIVITY:
Chair- Robert Hogenraad

Once is not enough: Statistical simulation of textual data
Robert Hogenraad

The uses and gratifications of game platform and computer role-playing games
Kenneth Day, Marlin Bates, & Qingwen Dong

Facilitating scientific text reception through recognition of the author
Ute Ritterfeld

Empirical studies of the effects of theatrical performances on juvenile audiences in Soviet Russia
Yulia Landa


37.
SYMPOSIUM -
LITERARY CENSORSHIP:
Chair- Achim Barsch

Literary censorship and the empirical study of literature
Achim Barsch

Between freedom of the media and intrusions of censorship
Roland Seim

Censorship: Franco's regime and French writers
Ebtehal Younes (in French)

Egypt's intellectual crisis: Religious censorship in literature and academic research
Nasr Abu Zayd

38.
PAPER SESSION -
CRITICAL ANALYSIS IN RECEPTION:
Chair- Carol Gould

Why literature doesn't matter
David Bleich

A problem about literary knowledge
Carol Gould

Reading the rocks, reading the reading: Doing "science" and understanding the contexts of texts
Russell A. Hunt

Three ways of knowing literariness
Thomas J. Roberts

8:00-11:-00 pm39.
BANQUET/CRUISE
(bus transfer from VIC to Toronto Harbour)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4



EM 1
9:15 - 10:15 40.
Invited Address:
Ellen Dissanayake
A centripetal view of the arts
Chair- David Miall
10:15 - 10:30COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 11:3041.
INVITED ADDRESS:
Interactivity and involvement in large format digital cinema
Stacey Spiegel
Chair: Peter Vorderer
11:30 - 12:3042.
Closing Plenary Session
The future of reception studies
Chair- Gerald Cupchik
CONGRESS ENDS
2:30 - 4:15
PLAYDIUM
43.
POST-CONGRESS EVENT:
VIRTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
LOCATION-BASED ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE FEATURING A WIDE ARRAY OF
VIRTUAL REALITY GAMES AND SIMULATOR EXPERIENCES
(A ONE HOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SETTING PLUS
A 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION OF INTERACTIVITY)