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Powerful Prose
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About this book
What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the question by investigating the effects and reader responses generated by selected extracts of literary prose. The twelve contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection explores a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects – topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Experiencing Powerful Prose
11 - Part I Emotional Experiences: Textual Features Eliciting Positive, Negative or Mixed Emotions
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A Psycho-Biological Approach to Suspense and Horror: Triggers of Emotion in a Passage from Lewis’s The Monk
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Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature
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Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without Us
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Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard’s Crash
77 - Part II Coming to the Fore: The Subtle Influence of Rhythm, Sounds, and Sensory Representations
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Lives and Deaths of Gatsby: A Semantic Reading of a Key Passage in a Powerful Text
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Introducing Jane: The Power of the Opening
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Performing Rhythm Through Enunciation: Prose Versus Poetry
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The Pictorial Paradigm of La Vallée: A Text-Image Reading of the Incipit of The Mysteries of Udolpho
145 - Part III Readers, Characters, Authors: Relations Formed by Textual Features
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The Nature of the Agonistic in a Pragmatics of Fiction
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The Relevance of Turning a Page: Monotony and Complexity in §25 of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
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The Language of Engagement and the Projection of Storyworld Possible Selves in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
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“Smuggling in Accidental Poetry”: Cognitive and Stylistic Strategies of a Stammering Teen in David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green
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Contributors
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Editors
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Index
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