Sound Shape and Sound Effects of Literary Texts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Reflections and Prognoses 1
4. Section I: Modes of Textual Representation
5. Sound Shape and Sound Effects of Literary Texts 7
6. Contextual Meaning-Making in Reading: The Role of Affect 39
7. Mental Simulation during Literary Reading 63
8. Constructing Mental Models in Literary Reading: The Role of Interpretive Inferences 85
9. Section II: The Form and Function of Literariness
10. Empirical Studies of Poetic Metaphor 121
11. Foregrounding 145
12. The Psychological and Social Effects of Literariness: Formal Features and Paratextual Information 177
13. Section III: Social Effects of Literary Reading
14. Children’s Reading for Pleasure with Digital Books 205
15. Stories and Their Role in Social Cognition 229
16. Character Engagement and Identification 251
17. Section IV: Narrative Engagement and Experiential Depth
18. Narrative Absorption: An Overview 279
19. Openness, Reflective Engagement, and Self-Altering Literary Reading 305
20. Meaningful Responses to Narrative Digital Media: Research from a Media Psychology Perspective 343
21. Audience Reception of Tragic Entertainment and the Value of Cathartic Reflection 365
22. Section V: Enhanced Social Well-Being
23. Literary Reading and Mental Wellbeing 393
24. Poetic Writing Research: The History, Methods, and Outcomes of Poetic (Auto) Ethnography 421
25. Section VI: History, Theory, and Empirical Methods
26. Computational Stylistics 451
27. Philosophy of Science, Methodology, and Theory Development in Empirical Studies of Literary Experience 487
28. The History of the Empirical Study of Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 515
29. Contributors 543
30. Subject Index 547
31. Name Index 555