The psychology and sociology of literature : in honor of Elrud Ibsch / edited by Dick Schram, Gerard Steen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ibsch, Elrud.

Schram, Dick H.

Steen, Gerard.

Series:

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 35.

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature, 0167-8175 ; v. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 478 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Psychology and Sociology of Literature is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora, Norbert Groeben, Colin Martindale, David Miall, Willie van Peer, Kees van Rees, Siegfried Schmidt, Hugo Verdaasdonk, and Rolf Zwaan. Topics include literature and the reading process; the role of poetic language, metaphor, and irony; cathartic and Freudian effects; literature and creativity; the career of the literary author; literature and culture; literature and multicultural society, literature and the mass media; literature and the internet; and literature and history. An introduction by the editors situates the empirical study of literature within an academic context. The chapters are all invited and refereed contributions, collected to honor the scholarship and retirement of professor Elrud Ibsch, of the Free University of Amsterdam. Together they represent the state of the art in the empirical study of literature, a movement in literary studies which aims to produce reliable and valid scientific knowledge about literature as a means of verbal communication in its cultural context. Elrud Ibsch was one of the pioneers in Europe to promote this approach to literature some 25 years ago, and this volume takes stock of what has happened since. The Psychology and Sociology of Literature presents an invaluable overview of the results, promises, gaps, and needs of the empirical study of literature. It addresses social scientists as well as scholars in the humanities who are interested in literature as discourse.

Contents:

The Psychology and Sociology of Literature

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

The empirical study of literature

Literary creativity

Qualitative methods in studyingtext reception

Agency,plot,and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension

Time in narrative comprehension

Old readers

What we know about reading poetry

A renaissance perspective on the empirical study of literature

A rhetoric of metaphor

Irony and its discontent

Psychoanalysts and daydreaming

Back from the grave

How to make alle Menschen Brüder

"Sad autumn "and cultural representations

The fragmentation of the media audience

Bypassing the author

Readers and reading behavior in the past

The empirical study of careers in literature and the arts

Stories and social structure

Quotations expressing the valuative stands of literary reviewers

The proper place of humanism

An evolutionary framework for literary reading

High and popular culture from the viewpoints of psychology and cultural studies

Operative fictions

List of contributors

Subject index

Name Index

The series UTRECHT PUBLICATIONS IN GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161704

9781282161702

1282161709

9789027297181

9027297185

OCLC:

70747738