Powerful Prose
How Textual Features Impact Readers
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Beschreibung
An absorbing analysis of what makes readers experience a text as ›powerful‹ and how it affects them.
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.
Autor*in
R. L. Victoria Pöhls
Themen in »Powerful Prose«
Literature Literature Language Language Culture Culture Literary Studies Literary Studies Linguistics Linguistics Theory of Literature Theory of Literature Psychology Psychology