Empirical Approaches to Literature and Aesthetics

ORIENTATION TO THE ISSUES Three Obstacles in Empirical Research on Aesthetic and Literacy Comprehension The Strained Relationship Between the Empiricist's Notion of Validity and the Hermeneutician's Notion of Revelance Media: The Coupling of Cognition and Communication ASPECTS OF TEXTS The Effect of Verb Choice on Causal Attribution The Influence of Working Memory Constraints on Pronomial Reference Figurative Language Occurrence and Co-Occurrence in Contemporary Literature The Effects of Line Length on the Psychological Reality of the Paragraph EFFECTS OF PERSPECTIVES Participatory Aspects of Narrative Understanding Perspectivation and Sympathy: Effects of Narrative Point of View TEXT STRUCTURE AND INFERENCES Recalling the Three Bears After 10 Years: Exploring New Vistas for Discourse and Text Processing Models Through the Study of Folktales Causal Inferences in the Comprehension of Literary Texts A Taxomony of Inference Categories That May Be Generated During the Comprehension of Literary Texts THE ROLE OF AFFECT Imaginative Processes in Literary Comprehension The Role of Emotion, Empathy, and Text Structure in Children's and Adults' Narrative Text Comprehension Good and Bad Story Endings and Story Completeness Emotions in Poetry: What are They and How Do We Find Them? PERSPECTIVES ON POETRY How We Talk When We Talk About Love: Metaphorical Concepts and Understanding Love Poetry Phonetics and the Empirical Study of Poetry Literary Aspects of Reading and Thinking Out Loud Psychophysiology and Literary Processing: ERPs to Semantic and Phonological Deviations in Reading Small Verses LEVELS OF EXPERTISE The Mental Processes of Professional Actors as Examined Through Self-Report, Experimental Investigation and Think-Aloud Protocol General and Personal Meaning in Literary Reading A Cognitive Study of Literary Expertise Factors in Transcaction with Literature: An Analysis of Student Response Journals On the Processing of Political Editorials EDUCATIONAL ISSUES Empowering the Reader: Literary Response and Classroom Learning Literacy as Dialogic Involvement: Methodological Implications for the Empirical Study of Literary Reading A View of Reading Practices in the Intermediate Grades: Treatment of Discourse Types Approaches to the Teaching of Literature: A National Survey of Literary Education in Dutch Secondary Schools CULTURAL FACTORS How Professional Readers Differ from Leisure-Time Readers: An Empirical Investigation into Differences in Intrinsic and Social Aspects of Reading Contemporary Literature and the Embedded Consumer Culture: The Case of Updike's Rabbit Transformation of Genre in Nigerian Fiction: The Case of the Village Novel Memorable Books: Recall of Reading and Its Personal Context Parental Influence on Children's Reading Patterns Personal and Nonpersonal Narrativity in Reading METATHEORY Three Forms of Knowledge in Empirical Studies of the Past: How Empirical Can Literary Historiography Be? Popular Fiction - A Subsystem of the Literary System? The Problem of Literary Evaluation Indexes