Experiencing Poetry

A Guidebook to Psychopoetics

Prof Willie van Peer author Prof Anna Chesnokova author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:29th Dec '22

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A hands-on introduction to the psychological workings of poetry, using empirical methods to show how real readers experience poetic texts.

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.

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 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

ISBN: 9781350248021

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256 pages