Powerful Prose
How Textual Features Impact Readers
Author(s)
Pöhls, R. L. Victoria
Contributor(s)
Pöhls, R. L. Victoria (editor)
Utudji, Mariane (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to elucidate the effects and reader responses to investigate just that. The thirteen 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 investigates 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.
Keywords
Literature; Language; Culture; Literary Studies; Linguistics; Theory of Literature; PsychologyDOI
10.1515/9783839458808ISBN
9783839458808, 9783837658804, 9783839458808Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2021Imprint
transcript VerlagSeries
Lettre,Classification
Literary studies: general
Linguistics
Literary theory