
The Evaluation of Literary Texts
An Experimental Investigation into the Rationalization of Value Judgments with Reference to Semiotics and Esthetics of Reception
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[Studies in Semiotics, 22] 1978. 234 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:Peter de Ridder Press
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Table of contents | pp. v–vi
- Acknowledgments | pp. 7–
- Part I. Theoretical Introduction
- 1. The Literary Text in the Communication Process | pp. 13–
- 1.1. Semiotics and information theory
- 1.2. The communication process of a literary text
- 1.3. Research problem
- 2. The Relations between Text and Reader | pp. 35–
- 2.1. Russian Formalism
- 2.2. Prague Structuralism
- 2.3. Esthetics of reception
- 3. Auxiliary Disciplines for the Investigation into Literary Evaluation | pp. 57–
- 3.1. Value theory
- 3.2. A parallelism between axiology and epistemology?
- 3.3. Sociology of literature
- 3.4. Psychology of literature
- 4. The Structure of Literary Evaluation | pp. 80–
- 4.1. The place of evaluation in the investigation into a literary text
- 4.2. Two different theories of literary value
- 4.3. The structure of the literary value judgment
- 4.4. Research into literary evaluation
- Part II. Experimental Research
- 5. An Experimental Investigation into the Evaluation of a Literary Text | pp. 95–
- 5.1. Problem
- 5.2. Readers and texts
- 5.3. Indiana investigation
- 5.4. Yale investigation
- 5.5. Recapitulation, general discussion and conclusions
- 6. Some Implications of the Experimental Method for the Study of Literature | pp. 156–
- 6.1. Further discussion of the experiments
- 6.2. Problems to be considered in future experiments
- 6.3. Possibilities and limitations of the experimental method
- Appendices: 1. The four short stories | pp. 171–
- 2. Questionnaire A | pp. 187–
- 3. Questionnaire B | pp. 189–
- 4. Questionnaire C | pp. 192–
- | pp. 199–
- Index of Authors | pp. 227–