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The Nature of Literary Response

Author : Clark McPhail
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351478893
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Literary Response written by Clark McPhail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rare fusion of literary sensibility with psychological research, Norman N. Holland brings to light important data showing how personality—in the fullest sense of character development and identity—affects the way in which we read and interpret literature. This book will show that readers respond to literature in terms of their own lifestyle, character, personality, or identity. By such terms, psychoanalytic writers mean an individual's characteristic way of dealing with the demands of outer and inner reality. Each new experience develops the style, while the pre-existing style shapes each new experience. The sub-title of this book, Five Readers Reading, reflects the fact that the author, a distinguished literary critic, worked with five student readers, using a battery of psychological tests and extensive interviews to study the ways they reacted to classic short stories by Faulkner, Hemingway, and others. Combining his own interpretation of the stories with his understanding of the readers and their reactions, Holland derives four principles that inform literary response. He then goes on to show how these principles apply, not just to literary response, but to the way personality shapes any experience. The book carries Holland's previous studies of creation and responsive recreation forward to a major theoretical statement. He rejects the artificial idea that one must think of a text (or other event) as separate from its perceivers, illustrating the dynamics by which perceiver and perceived mutually create an experience. For critics and students of the psychology of human behavior, this is challenging and seminal reading.

5 Readers Reading

Author : Norman Norwood Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300018547
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book 5 Readers Reading written by Norman Norwood Holland and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dynamics of Literary Response

Author : Norman Norwood Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231069809
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Literary Response written by Norman Norwood Holland and published by . This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Digging Into Literature

Author : Joanna Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319020275
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Digging Into Literature written by Joanna Wolfe and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging Into Literature reveals the critical strategies that any college student can use for reading, analyzing, and writing about literary texts. It is based on a groundbreaking study of the successful interpretive and argumentative moves of more than a thousand professional and student essays. Full of practical charts and summaries, with plenty of exercises and activities for trying out the strategies, the book convincingly reveals that while great literature is profoundly and endlessly complex, writing cogent and effective essays about it doesn’t have to be.

Style and Reader Response

Author : Alice Bell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260370
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Style and Reader Response written by Alice Bell and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts. Contributions to the book investigate discourse types such as contemporary literature, poetry, political speeches, digital fiction, art exhibitions, and online news discourse. The volume also exemplifies the variety of empirical approaches in reception research, with contributors drawing on a range of methods including discussion groups, interviews, questionnaires, and think-aloud protocols with data analysed from both online and offline sources. Style and Reader Response makes an important contribution to an emerging paradigm within stylistics in which verifiable insights from readers are used to generate new models and new understandings of texts across media, with each essay demonstrating the centrality of empirical research for theoretical, methodological, and/or analytical advancements within and beyond stylistics.

The Literary Animal

Author : Jonathan Gottschall
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810122871
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Animal written by Jonathan Gottschall and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to overcome some of the widespread misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically.

The Intimate Critique

Author : Diane P. Freedman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822312925
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Intimate Critique written by Diane P. Freedman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life. Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume--including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim--respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result--which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"--maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism. Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar

Psychonarratology

Author : Marisa Bortolussi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521009133
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Psychonarratology written by Marisa Bortolussi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

On Literary Worlds

Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199926697
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book On Literary Worlds written by Eric Hayot and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.

Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies

Author : Donald Kuiken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110644789
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies written by Donald Kuiken and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook reviews efforts to increase the use of empirical methods in studies of the aesthetic and social effects of literary reading. The reviewed research is expansive, including extension of familiar theoretical models to novel domains (e.g., educational settings); enlarging empirical efforts within under-represented research areas (e.g., child development); and broadening the range of applicable quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g., computational stylistics; phenomenological methods). Especially challenging is articulation of the subtle aesthetic and social effects of literary artefacts (e.g., poetry, film). Increasingly, the complexity of these effects is addressed in multi-variate studies, including confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. While each chapter touches upon the historical background of a specific research topic, two chapters address the area’s historical background and guiding philosophical assumptions. Taken together, the material in this volume provides a systematic introduction to the area for early career professionals, while challenging active researchers to develop theoretical frameworks and empirical procedures that match the complexity of their research objectives.

Literary Analysis: The Basics

Author : Celena Kusch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317420950
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Literary Analysis: The Basics written by Celena Kusch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as: What counts as literature? Is analysis a dissection? How do gender, race, class and culture affect the meaning of a text? Why is the social and historical context of a text important? Can digital media be analysed in the same way as a poem? With examples from ancient myths to young adult fiction, a glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading, Literary Analysis: The Basics is essential reading for anyone wishing to improve their analytical reading skills.

The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma

Author : Monica Osborne
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498564917
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma written by Monica Osborne and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary writers’ use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. With particular attention paid to Holocaust literature, the book identifies an important trend in literature about collective trauma.

Rehabilitating Literary Theory

Author : Khaled Besbes
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612335071
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Rehabilitating Literary Theory written by Khaled Besbes and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work seeks to bring literary theory in line with the most recent practical turn the humanities are witnessing. When simplified, succinctly presented, and skillfully used in multi-coded interpretation within a semiocritical framework, literary theories become practical exercises in criticism, not only facilitating the interpretation of literature, but also making it more enjoyable and more rewarding. This book is different from its counterparts in the sense that it includes an exceptionally expanded model of the practice of literary theories, and replaces long and theoretical discussions with brief synopses of the examined theories. It relies on less-overused texts for illustration as it compiles and organizes the terms and phrases that are often used by the proponents of the discussed theories. The most influential literary theories that have so far been developed in academia are included: the New Criticism, reader-response criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalytic criticism, linguistic criticism, cultural materialism, new historicism, postcolonialism, and semiotics. Through eliminating the excesses made in the name of theory, this book will restore the faith of students, teachers, and practitioners in the useful and enduring nature of literary theory for the analysis and appreciation of literature.

Why I Write

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724263
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Prospecting

Author : Wolfgang Iser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801845932
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Prospecting written by Wolfgang Iser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reevaluating such time-honored concepts as representation, he sketches out a new play theoryof the text that sees literature as an ongoing enactment of human possibilities.

Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401203555
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies is a collection of essays written by European and North American scholars who argue that nature and culture can no longer be thought of in oppositional, mutually exclusive terms. They are united in an effort to push the theoretical limits of ecocriticism towards a more rigorous investigation of nature’s critical potential as a concept that challenges modern culture’s philosophical assumptions, epistemological convictions, aesthetic principles, and ethical imperatives. This volume offers scholars and students of literature, culture, history, philosophy, and linguistics new insights into the ongoing transformation of ecocriticism into an innovative force in international and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies.

Teaching English Literature 16-19

Author : Carol Atherton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113631041X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Teaching English Literature 16-19 written by Carol Atherton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching English Literature 16 – 19 is an essential new resource that is suitable for use both as an introductory guide for those new to teaching literature and also as an aid to reflection and renewal for more experienced teachers. Using the central philosophy that students will learn best when actively engaged in discussion and encouraged to apply what they have learnt independently, this highly practical new text contains: discussion of the principles behind the teaching of literature at this level; guidelines on course planning, pedagogy, content and subject knowledge; advice on teaching literature taking into account a range of broader contexts, such as literary criticism, literary theory, performance, publishing, creative writing and journalism; examples of practical activities, worksheets and suggestions for texts; guides to available resources. Aimed at English teachers, teacher trainees, teacher trainers and advisors, this resource is packed full of new and workable ideas for teaching all English literature courses.