In:Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer
Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 5] 2008
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 15 May 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.5.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.5.toc
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives
Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunction
Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validity
Notes toward a new philology
A theory of expressive reading
Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature
Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary response
Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative
Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives
Narrative empathy and inter-group relations
Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies
Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognition
Part III. Computers and the humanities
An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions
Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary Texts
Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics
Searching for style in modern American poetry
The laws governing the history of poetry
Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms.
Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation
Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical variety
Language allergy: Myth or reality
Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings
Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea
The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in Poland
Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in English
About the contributors
Index of authors
Index of keywords
