TY - GEN ID - cogprints724 UR - http://cogprints.org/724/ A1 - Miall, David S. A1 - Kuiken, Don Y1 - 1994/// N2 - Approaches to text comprehension that focus on propositional, inferential, and elaborative processes have often been considered capable of extension in principle to literary texts, such as stories or poems. However, we argue that literary response is influenced by stylistic features that result in defamiliarization; that defamiliarization invokes feeling which calls on personal perspectives and meanings; and that these aspects of literary response are not addressed by current text theories. The main differences between text theories and defamiliarization theory are discussed. We offer a historical perspective on the theory of defamiliarization from Coleridge to the present day, and mention some empirical studies that tend to support it. KW - text theory KW - discourse analysis KW - Kintsch model KW - literary response KW - reading KW - poetics KW - stylistics KW - phonetics KW - defamiliarization KW - feeling KW - self TI - Beyond Text Theory: Understanding Literary Response SP - 337 AV - public EP - 352 ER -