Experiencing Poetry
A Guidebook to Psychopoetics
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2022
256 pages
978-1-350-24804-5 (ISBN)
Description
How 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 analytical tools needed to uncover the psychological workings of poetry.
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 analytical tools needed to uncover the psychological workings of poetry.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
26 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-24804-5 (9781350248045)
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Persons
Willie van Peer is Professor of Literature and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Anna Chesnokova is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.
Anna Chesnokova is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.
Content
List 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
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
