Experiencing Poetry

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 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
Experiencing Poetry by Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokovais 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
[Experiencing Poetry] is highly original and creative: from the structure, the choice of vast materials from different fields of art, all producing new links that intrigue the reader and challenge canonical approaches to the subject matter. One can imagine the pleasure the authors themselves experienced while writing the book. And the readers are invited to share it … this book succeeds in offering 21st-century students a most enjoyable and entertaining journey into poems, stylistics, and statistics. -- Sonia Zyngier * Ideas: A Journal of English Literary Studies *