Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics (Advances in Stylistics) - Softcover

Peer, Willie Van; Chesnokova, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350248029 ISBN 13: 9781350248021

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Willie van Peer is Professor of Literature and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Anna Chesnokova is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.

Daniel McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Brian Walker is a Visiting Researcher at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His research interests are in stylistics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics, especially applied to literary and political discourses. He has co-authored books on discourse analysis (Canning and Walker 2024), stylistics (Lugea and Walker 2023), corpus stylistics (McIntyre and Walker 2019) and socio-political keywords (Jeffries and Walker 2017). His other published research focuses on using corpus linguistic approaches to analyse poetry (McIntyre and Walker 2022), discourses of austerity (Jeffries and Walker 2019, 2020), and Early Modern English news pamphlets (Walker and McIntyre 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350248029
• ISBN 13: 9781350248021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256