Hidetsugu Komeda
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hidetsugu Komeda is involved.
Articles
2017 A sixth sense: Narrative experiences of stories with twist endings Scientific Study of Literature 7:2, pp. 203–231 | Article
Stories with twist endings are popular, but little research has examined how readers experience them. To begin developing such an account, we examined the affective responses that emerge during stories with twist endings. In Experiment 1, 28 Japanese participants read a story with a twist ending. read more
2011 Vivifications of literary investigation The Future of Scientific Studies in Literature, pp. 123–135 | Article
A rich base of research has investigated the types of responses that literature engenders in readers. In the current contribution, we consider other aspects of the reading experience that have, to date, gone relatively ignored in empirical study. We explore issues including authors’ decisions about… read more