04872nam 22006375 450 991083183320332120211027022714.03-8394-5880-310.1515/9783839458808(CKB)4970000000171272(DE-B1597)586114(DE-B1597)9783839458808(EXLCZ)99497000000017127220211027h20212021 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPowerful Prose How Textual Features Impact Readers /ed. by Mariane Utudji, R. L. Victoria PöhlsBielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2021]©20211 online resource (264 p.)LettreFrontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Experiencing Powerful Prose -- Part I Emotional Experiences: Textual Features Eliciting Positive, Negative or Mixed Emotions -- A Psycho-Biological Approach to Suspense and Horror: Triggers of Emotion in a Passage from Lewis's The Monk -- Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature -- Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without Us -- Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard's Crash -- Part II Coming to the Fore: The Subtle Influence of Rhythm, Sounds, and Sensory Representations -- Lives and Deaths of Gatsby: A Semantic Reading of a Key Passage in a Powerful Text -- Introducing Jane: The Power of the Opening -- Performing Rhythm Through Enunciation: Prose Versus Poetry -- The Pictorial Paradigm of La Vallée: A Text-Image Reading of the Incipit of The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Part III Readers, Characters, Authors: Relations Formed by Textual Features -- The Nature of the Agonistic in a Pragmatics of Fiction -- The Relevance of Turning a Page: Monotony and Complexity in §25 of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King -- The Language of Engagement and the Projection of Storyworld Possible Selves in Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives -- "Smuggling in Accidental Poetry": Cognitive and Stylistic Strategies of a Stammering Teen in David Mitchell's Black Swan Green -- Contributors -- Editors -- IndexWhat makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to elucidate the effects and reader responses to investigate just that. The thirteen contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects - topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralbisacshCulture.Language.Linguistics.Literary Studies.Psychology.Theory of Literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / General.Boisseau Maryvonne, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbChollier Christine, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbKavanagh Ciarán, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbLabourg Alice, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbMartinez Maria-Angeles, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbMertens Mahlu, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbPager-McClymont Kimberley, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbPöhls R. L. Victoria, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbPöhls R. L. Victoria, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtQuassdorf Sixta, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbRobert-Murail Constance, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbUtudji Mariane, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbUtudji Mariane, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtValovirta Elina, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbWenzel Peter, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbWood Tahir, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbMax-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik fndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910831833203321UNINA