Ed S. Tan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ed S. Tan is involved.

Journal

Scientific Study of Literature

Edited by David I. Hanauer

ISSN 2210-4372 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4380

Title

Narrative Absorption

Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru

Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Kuijpers, Moniek M., Frank Hakemulder, Katalin Bálint, Miruna M. Doicaru and Ed S. Tan 2017 Chapter 2. Towards a new understanding of absorbing reading experiences Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 29–47 | Chapter

When reading literary narratives, we assume that readers can get absorbed in the story world and in the story’s artifice. Since most absorption research focuses primarily on popular media, virtually no attention has been paid to the possibility that literary devices such as deviation could elicit… read more

Tan, Ed S., Miruna M. Doicaru, Frank Hakemulder, Katalin Bálint and Moniek M. Kuijpers 2017 Chapter 5. Into film: Does absorption in a movie’s story world pose a paradox? Narrative Absorption, Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru (eds.), pp. 97–118 | Chapter

Most film viewers know the experience of being deeply absorbed in the story of a popular film. It seems that at such moments they lose awareness of watching a movie. And yet it is highly unlikely that they completely ignore the fact that they watch a narrative and technological construction.… read more

Bálint, Katalin, Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Miruna M. Doicaru and Ed S. Tan 2016 Reconceptualizing foregrounding: Identifying response strategies to deviation in absorbing narratives Scientific Study of Literature 6:2, pp. 176–207 | Article

The experience of deviation is often referred to as foregrounding and contrasted with the experience of feeling absorbed in a narrative. However, instead of simply assuming that foregrounding and absorption are mutually exclusive, they should also be considered as co-occurring: being absorbed as… read more

Kuijpers, Moniek M., Frank Hakemulder, Ed S. Tan and Miruna M. Doicaru 2014 Exploring absorbing reading experiences: Developing and validating a self-report scale to measure story world absorption Scientific Study of Literature 4:1, pp. 89–122 | Article

Tan, Ed S. and Sarita Dev 2001 Bypassing the author: Two examples of reading interactive stories The Psychology and Sociology of Literature: In honor of Elrud Ibsch, Schram, Dick and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 289–313 | Article

Tan, Ed S. and Henry Schoenmakers 1985 ‘Good guy bad guy’ Effects in Political Theatre Semiotics of Drama and Theatre: New Perspectives in the Theory of Drama and Theatre, Schmid, Herta and Aloysius Van Kesteren (eds.), pp. 467–512 | Article