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Powerful Prose

How Textual Features Impact Readers
DOI: 10.14361/9783839458808
  • Pöhls,  R. L. Victoria
    Pöhls, R. L. Victoria ORCID: 0000-0001-5464-3245
  • Utudji,  Mariane
    Utudji, Mariane ORCID: 0000-0001-9822-0295

Abstract

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.

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01. Oktober 2021
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Beiträge

Frontmatter
R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
Seiten: 1 - 4
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Contents
R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
Seiten: 5 - 8
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Acknowledgments
R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
Seiten: 9 - 10
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Experiencing Powerful Prose
R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
Seiten: 11 - 22
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Part I Emotional Experiences: Textual Features Eliciting Positive, Negative or Mixed Emotions

A Psycho-Biological Approach to Suspense and Horror: Triggers of Emotion in a Passage from Lewis's The Monk
Peter Wenzel
Seiten: 25 - 44
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Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature
Elina Valovirta
Seiten: 45 - 62
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Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without Us
Mahlu Mertens
Seiten: 63 - 76
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Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard's Crash
Ciarán Kavanagh
Seiten: 77 - 96
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Part II Coming to the Fore: The Subtle Influence of Rhythm, Sounds, and Sensory Representations

Lives and Deaths of Gatsby: A Semantic Reading of a Key Passage in a Powerful Text
Christine Chollier
Seiten: 99 - 110
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Introducing Jane: The Power of the Opening
Kimberley Pager-McClymont
Seiten: 111 - 128
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Performing Rhythm Through Enunciation: Prose Versus Poetry
Maryvonne Boisseau
Seiten: 129 - 144
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The Pictorial Paradigm of La Vallée: A Text-Image Reading of the Incipit of The Mysteries of Udolpho
Alice Labourg
Seiten: 145 - 164
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Part III Readers, Characters, Authors: Relations Formed by Textual Features

The Nature of the Agonistic in a Pragmatics of Fiction
Tahir Wood
Seiten: 167 - 188
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The Relevance of Turning a Page: Monotony and Complexity in §25 of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
Sixta Quassdorf
Seiten: 189 - 206
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The Language of Engagement and the Projection of Storyworld Possible Selves in Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives
Maria-Angeles Martinez
Seiten: 207 - 230
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"Smuggling in Accidental Poetry": Cognitive and Stylistic Strategies of a Stammering Teen in David Mitchell's Black Swan Green
Constance Robert-Murail
Seiten: 231 - 248
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Contributors
R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
Seiten: 249 - 252
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Editors
R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
Seiten: 253 - 253
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Index
R. L. Victoria Pöhls, Mariane Utudji
Seiten: 254 - 264
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Schlagworte
Literature, Language, Culture, Literary Studies, Linguistics, Theory of Literature, Psychology,

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