creators_name: Miall, David S.
creators_name: Kuiken, Don
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-07-19
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:13
metadata_visibility: show
title: Beyond Text Theory: Understanding Literary Response
ispublished: pub
subjects: psy-ling
full_text_status: public
keywords: text theory, discourse analysis, Kintsch model, literary response, reading, poetics, stylistics, phonetics, defamiliarization, feeling, self
abstract: 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.
date: 1994
date_type: published
publication: Discourse Processes
volume: 17
pagerange: 337-352
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Miall, David S. and Kuiken, Don  (1994) Beyond Text Theory: Understanding Literary Response.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/724/1/BEYOND_t.htm