Transcript Verlag - Powerful Prose How Textual Features Impact Readers - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Powerful Prose How Textual Features Impact Readers
Brand: Transcript Verlag
Barcode: 9783837658804
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 10/27/2021
Series: Lettre
Category: Education