Shawn Douglas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shawn Douglas is involved.
Articles
2021 Openness to experience, absorption-like states, and the aesthetic, explanatory, and pragmatic effects of literary reading: Explanatory, and pragmatic effects of literary reading Scientific Study of Literature 11:2, pp. 148–195 | Article
Although several measures of reading engagement (e.g., absorption, immersion) have been developed in recent years, the possibility that they reflect different constructs has not been systematically examined. The present study investigated two factorially independent forms of reading engagement… read more
2018 Living metaphor as the site of bidirectional literary engagement Empirical Studies of Literariness, Salgaro, Massimo and Paul Sopčák (eds.), pp. 47–76 | Article
Articulation of an interactive model of literariness calls for separate specification of (a) a text’s perceptible mode of representation, (b) a reader’s mode of engagement with a text so perceived, and (c) the generative (e.g., creative, expressive) effects of the interaction between this mode… read more
2017 Chapter 11. Forms of absorption that facilitate the aesthetic and explanatory effects of literary reading Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 217–249 | Chapter
Rather than articulating a univocal conception of absorption, we provide a theoretical rationale for the Absorption-like States Questionnaire (ASQ), an instrument that incorporates alternative conceptions of absorption based upon contrasts between forms of (1) attention (sustained concentration and… read more