Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. The empirical study of literature 1
5. Literary creativity 17
6. Qualitative methods in studying text reception 35
7. Agency, plot, and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension 57
8. Time in narrative comprehension 71
9. Old readers 87
10. What we know about reading poetry 107
11. A renaissance perspective on the empirical study of literature 129
12. A rhetoric of metaphor 145
13. Irony and its discontent 165
14. Psychoanalysts and daydreaming 185
15. Back from the grave 201
16. How to make alle Menschen Brüder 225
17. “Sad autumn” and cultural representations 243
18. The fragmentation of the media audience 261
19. Bypassing the author 289
20. Readers and reading behavior in the past 315
21. The empirical study of careers in literature and the arts 323
22. Stories and social structure 359
23. Quotations expressing the valuative stands of literary reviewers 379
24. The proper place of humanism 395
25. An evolutionary framework for literary reading 407
26. High and popular culture from the viewpoints of psychology and cultural studies 421
27. Operative fictions 443
28. List of contributors 459