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R. L. Victoria Pöhls works as a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt). Her interest in studying literature with both hermeneutical and empirical methods evolved during graduate studies in cognitive science (University College Dublin) and literature, linguistics, and philosophy (Universität Hamburg). To foster interdisciplinary work at the frontiers of these disciplines, she cofounded the Powerful Literary Fiction Texts-Network in 2019. Her research focuses on comparative, empirical, and cognitive approaches to literature and is especially concerned with the portrayal of minorities.
Mariane Utudji has completed a PhD thesis in English studies and translatology at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris), a work which investigates Salman Rushdie's highly valued prose style and shows how the reading experience it provides can be retained or recreated in French. Her approach to literary texts thus combines stylistics, applied linguistics and translation studies, and she is getting more and more interested in cognitive linguistics. She cofounded the Powerful Literary Fiction Texts- Network in 2019.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 9
Experiencing Powerful Prose 11
A Psycho-Biological Approach to Suspense and Horror: Triggers of Emotion in a Passage from Lewis's The Monk 25
Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature 45
Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without Us 63
Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in J.G. Ballard's Crash 77
Lives and Deaths of Gatsby: A Semantic Reading of a Key Passage in a Powerful Text 99
Introducing Jane: The Power of the Opening 111
Performing Rhythm Through Enunciation: Prose Versus Poetry 129
The Pictorial Paradigm of La Vallée: A Text-Image Reading of the Incipit of The Mysteries of Udolpho 145
The Nature of the Agonistic in a Pragmatics of Fiction 167
The Relevance of Turning a Page: Monotony and Complexity in §25 of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King 189
The Language of Engagement and the Projection of Storyworld Possible Selves in Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives 207
"Smuggling in Accidental Poetry": Cognitive and Stylistic Strategies of a Stammering Teen in David Mitchell's Black Swan Green 231
Contributors 249
Editors 253
Index 254