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Book SynopsisHow do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects?Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. Engaging with texts from diverse cultural and historical settings, it covers the basics of stylistic theory while at the same time outlining the specific methods required to categorize readers' cognitive, emotional and attitudinal reactions. Chapters guide you through engaging experiments, covering key concepts such as significance, averages, deviation, outliers and reliability, and bring poetry to life by drawing on YouTube performances and musical renditions of the texts. With further readings, a glossary of key terms and ancillary resources providing an overview of research methodology, this book equips you with all the linguistic and analy
Trade ReviewThe chapters present a number of interesting methodological approaches that the authors themselves have implemented...As with all kinds of linguistic experience and ability, the evidence from direct and indirect assessment will show how, in the experiencing of poetry, language interfaces with other faculties of the mind. * Scientific Study of Literature *
Experiencing Poetry welcomes readers into the field of empirical literary studies by connecting familiar aspects of poetry with scholarly concepts and research methods. The result is an engaging book for students or scholars who are new to the psychological study of poetry and its effects. -- Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA
Experiencing Poetry by Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova
is a new volume exploring the concept of ‘psychopoetics’, ‘the study of the psychological experience of literature, and more specifically, of poetry in its various aspects and meanings’. Using stylistic approaches and empirical methods to analyse a range of poems for their prototypical features against established theoretical models, readers are presented with an insightful discussion of poems under novel chapter headings such as Poetry is Madness and Poetry is Prettiness. -- Marina Lambrou, Kingston University, UK
Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Foreword,
David I. Hanauer Acknowledgments 1. Poetry is Structure 2. Poetry is Madness 3. Poetry is Prettiness 4. Poetry is Surprise 5. Poetry is Revelation 6. Poetry is Power 7. Poetry is Persistence 8. Methods to Study Psychopoetics 9. Toward a General Theory of Psychopoetics Bibliography Glossary Ancillary Resources Questionnaire Samples Dimensions of Foregrounding Effects Index
