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Category : Literature
Languages : de
Pages : 838
Book Description
Siegener Periodicum zur internationalen empirischen Literaturwissenschaft
Siegener Periodicum zur internationalen empirischen Literaturwissenschaft
Author: Media culture analyses
Author: Florian HartlingPublisher:
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Languages : de
Pages : 356
Book Description
Media, Literature, and Socialization
Author: Margrit SchreierPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Developments in literary reading
Author: Els AndringaPublisher:
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Languages : de
Pages : 176
Book Description
Literatur(wissenschaft) und Sozialpsychologie
Author: János LászlóPublisher:
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Languages : de
Pages : 156
Book Description
The place and function of literature in the next millennium
Author: Gebhard RuschPublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : de
Pages : 400
Book Description
The systemic and empirical approach to literature and culture as theory and application
Author: Steven Tötösy de ZepetnekPublisher: Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Alberta 1997.
ISBN: 9780921490081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The Social Dimensions of Fiction
Author: Steven Tötösy de ZepetnekPublisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
ISBN: 3663139093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This work is a comparative study of nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French Canadian novel prefaces, a previously unexplored literary topic. As a study in Comparative Literature - with the application of a specific literary framework and methodology - the study conforms to theoretical and methodological postulates formulated in and prescribed by this framework when applied. This a priori postulate necessitates that the research on and the presentation of the Canadian novel preface be carried out in a specific manner, as follows. First, the study will establish the hypothesis that the preface to nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French-Canadian novels is a genre in its own right. This hypothesis will rest on the following: 1) a taxonomical survey of related terms meaning "preface"; 2) a survey of secondary Iiterature of works dealing with the preface; 3) a discussion of the theoretical framework and methodology of the Empirical Theory of Literature and its appropriateness for the study of the preface; and 4) a discussion of the process of the compilation of the corpus of nineteenth-century Canadian novel prefaces (Chapter one). In a second step, the theoretical postulate outlined in the hypothesis will be put into practice by the development and production of a preface typology (Chapter two). In a third step, further tenets of the Empirical Theory of Literature will be tested on the corpus of the prefaces (Chapter three). In a fourth step, the prefaces will be analysed following the tenets formulated in and prescribed by the systemic framework applied (Chapter four).
Suspense
Author: Peter VordererPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136687696
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This volume begins with the general assumption that suspense is a major criterion for both an audience's selection and evaluation of entertaining media offerings. This assumption is supported not only by the popularity of suspenseful narratives, but also by the reasons users give for their actual choice of media contents. Despite this, there is no satisfying theory to describe and explain what suspense actually is, how exactly it is caused by films or books, and what kind of effect it has on audiences. This book's main objective is to provide that theory by bringing together scholars from different disciplines who are working on the issue. The editors' goal is to reflect the "state of the art" as much as it is to highlight and encourage further developments in this area. There are two ways of approaching the problem of describing and explaining suspense: an analysis of suspenseful texts or the reception process. Researchers who follow the more text-oriented approach identify the uncertainty of the narrative outcome, the threat or danger for the protagonist, the play with time delay, or other factors as important and necessary for the production of suspense. The more reception-oriented scholar focuses on the cognitive activities of audiences, readers' expectations, the curiosity of onlookers, their emotions, and their relationships with the protagonists. A correspondence between the two seems to be quite difficult, though necessary to determine. Both perspectives are important in order to describe and explain suspense. Thus, the editors utilize the thesis that suspense is an activity of the audience (reader, onlooker, etc.) that is related to specific features and characteristics of the text (books, films, etc.). Their question is: What kind of relation? The answer comes from finding out how, why, and which elements of the text cause effects that are experienced as suspense. Scholars from semiotics, literary criticism, cultural studies, and film theory assess the problem from a text-oriented point of view, dealing primarily with the how and which. Other scholars present the psychological perspective by focusing on the cognitive and emotional processes that underlie viewers' experience of suspense; that is, the reception theory tries to answer the question of why suspenseful texts may be experienced as they are.
