Description
A hands-on introduction to the psychological workings of poetry, using empirical methods to show how real readers experience poetic texts.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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
The 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 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781350248021
Author Prof Willie van Peer
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC