Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives
5. Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunction 7
6. Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validity 21
7. Notes toward a new philology 35
8. A theory of expressive reading 49
9. Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature
10. Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary response 75
11. Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative 89
12. Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives 103
13. Narrative empathy and inter-group relations 113
14. Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies 127
15. Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognition 139
16. Part III. Computers and the humanities
17. An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions 161
18. Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary Texts 175
19. Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics 193
20. Searching for style in modern American poetry 211
21. The laws governing the history of poetry 229
22. Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms. 243
23. Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation
24. Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical variety 271
25. Language allergy: Myth or reality 283
26. Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings 297
27. Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea 309
28. The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in Poland 317
29. Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in English 329
30. About the contributors 343
31. Index of authors 351
32. Index of keywords 355