Powerful Prose : How Textual Features Impact Readers / / ed. by Mariane Utudji, R. L. Victoria Pöhls

• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Soggetto non controllato: Culture; Language; Linguistics; Literary Studies; Psychology; Theory of Literature
• Persona (resp. second.): BoisseauMaryvonne; ChollierChristine; KavanaghCiarán; LabourgAlice; MartinezMaria-Angeles; MertensMahlu; Pager-McClymontKimberley; PöhlsR. L. Victoria; QuassdorfSixta; Robert-MurailConstance; UtudjiMariane; ValovirtaElina; WenzelPeter; WoodTahir
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What 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.
• ISBN: 3-8394-5880-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831833203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II