Scientific Study of Literature

Volume 3, Issue 1 (2013)

2013. iv, 168 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 31 May 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.3.1

Table of Contents

Editor’s introduction Willie van Peer	1
What’s your problem? And how might we deepen it? Brian Boyd	3–7
A rationale for evolutionary studies of literature Joseph Carroll	8–15
Toward consilience, not literary Darwinism Jonathan Gottschall	16–18
Extending Literary Darwinism: Culture and alternatives to adaptation Jan Verpooten	19–27
Reading other minds: Effects of literature on empathy Maja Djikic, Keith Oatley and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu	28–47
Exploring the metanarrative of the traditional literary critical essay Laurie Grobman and Joanna K. Garner	48–76
Transportation into literary fiction reduces prejudice against and increases empathy for Arab-Muslims Dan Johnson	77–92
The fluency of spoilers: Why giving away endings improves stories Jonathan D. Leavitt and Nicholas J.S. Christenfeld	93–104
Using affective appraisal to help readers construct literary interpretations Sarah Levine and William S. Horton	105–136
Action speaks louder than words: Empathy mainly modulates emotions from theory of mind-laden parts of a story Mikkel Wallentin, Arndis Simonsen and Andreas Højlund Nielsen	137–153
Review of Claassen (2012): Author representations in literary reading Reviewed by Gerhard Lauer	154–157
Review of Hogan (2003): The mind and its stories. Narrative universals and human emotion & Hogan (2011): What literature teaches us about emotion & Hogan (2011): Affective narratology. The emotional structure of stories Reviewed by Willie van Peer	158–160
Review of Ramachandran (2011): The tell-tale brain: A neuroscientist’s quest for what makes us human Reviewed by Willie van Peer	161–164
Review of Schreier (2012): Qualitative content analysis in practice Reviewed by Cathelein Aaftink	165–168

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Mar, Raymond A.

2018. Evaluating whether stories can promote social cognition: Introducing the Social Processes and Content Entrained by Narrative (SPaCEN) framework. Discourse Processes 55:5-6 ► pp. 454 ff.

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Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

Applied linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies