Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
This article examines cognitive and emotional responses produced while reading a short story. The... more This article examines cognitive and emotional responses produced while reading a short story. The text was presented in the original and in two modified versions, which differed in the presence or absence of anticipations. Readers were presented with a questionnaire concerning their responses. Effects of text version, gender, and type of academic studies were examined. A factorial analysis explored the underlying dimensions of the 15 variables. Three factors emerged, concerning readers' participation in the story, responses to the violation of their expectations, and cognitive evaluation of the textual features that make the story comprehensible. Women scored significantly higher on the first factor and the presence or absence of anticipations significantly influenced the second factor.
Absztrakt A tanulmany a szerzők Traversing a Borges labyrinth: searching for the transcultural as... more Absztrakt A tanulmany a szerzők Traversing a Borges labyrinth: searching for the transcultural aspects of literary reading cimű munkajanak (Fictions, 2012, XI. 59–76.) magyar nyelvű valtozata. Borges Az elagazo osvenyek kertje cimű elbeszelesenek feldolgozasat vizsgaltuk amerikai, magyar es olasz egyetemi hallgatoknal, az affektiv reakcio, a szovegsajatossagok megitelese, a jelentestulajdonitas, a hős es a szerző jellemzese, valamint a k.sz.-ek kulturajatol egyarant elterő kultura kepviselőire iranyulo attitűd meghatarozasa reven. Borges szovege alkalmas volt, hogy az un. naiv (nem szakertő) olvasok megertesenek kozos modjait tarjuk fel. A tortenet a (poszt)modern fikcionak az a fajtaja, amelyik elkeruli a hagyomanyos pszichologiai elemeket es elszemelyteleniti az elbeszelest. Mindazonaltal a szoban forgo olvasok arra torekednek, hogy megszemelyesitsek a hősoket es a cselekmenyt. Adataink azt jelzik, hogy tekintet nelkul kulturajukra, az olvasok egyidejűleg a belső es a kulső vilaguk megertesere torekedne...
CoSMo | Comparative Studies in Modernism, Jun 29, 2014
ALDO NEMESIO • Le ragioni della ricerca empirica sul testo CoSMo Comparative studies in modernism... more ALDO NEMESIO • Le ragioni della ricerca empirica sul testo CoSMo Comparative studies in modernism n. 4 • 2014 141 ALDO NEMESIO LE RAGIONI DELLA RICERCA EMPIRICA SUL TESTO La letteratura è stata spesso studiata in modo poco soddisfacente. Scriveva giustamente Bourdieu: Mi limiterò a chiedere per quali ragioni tanti critici, tanti scrittori e tanti filosofi sostengano con tanto compiacimento che l'esperienza dell'opera d'arte è ineffabile e si sottrae per definizione alla conoscenza razionale; per quale ragione si affrettino a proclamare, senza combattere, la sconfitta del sapere; da dove derivi loro questo bisogno così potente di svilire la conoscenza razionale, questa smania di affermare l'irriducibilità dell'opera d'arte o, con un termine più appropriato, la sua trascendenza 1 .
When we read the description of a character, we receive explicit information and construct a sema... more When we read the description of a character, we receive explicit information and construct a semantic representation of his/her aspect and personality. This constructive process also involves inferential processes based on the elaboration of explicit information. In this article we examined the first introduction of four female characters in Italian novels. When readers reported information that was not given in the texts, we had evidence of their constructive processes based on their inferences and world knowledge. In our study readers tended to concretize traits that were not explicitly stated in the text, with high values of the Gini index, showing different concretizations in different readers. This tendency was quite pervasive among readers, regardless of gender, academic education and interest in the text read; such constructive process seems to be intrinsic to the act of reading itself. In literary theory, there is general agreement that characters in narrative texts are constructed by readers by means of inferences, making use of readers'
Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, and the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons Dedicat... more Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, and the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
Literary anthropology brings about a remarkable change of paradigm in literary studies. Human lit... more Literary anthropology brings about a remarkable change of paradigm in literary studies. Human literary behavior is the main object of study, in an investigation that tries to understand human activities related to writing, distributing, and reading objects which - in ways that differ in different cultures - are called literature. Well-organized teamwork is necessary, because we have to deal with large numbers of texts in a project that requires skilled competence in different languages and cultures. Since the dimensions of the field grow enormously - from a limited number of canonical texts written in the same language to all the literatures in the world - it is possible that our research objects will not be individual texts, but textual types, that is generalizations based on the examination of a high number of texts, a representative sampling of the object of our study.
«Risposte cognitive ed emotive durante la lettura di racconti di tipo diverso: un esperimento tes... more «Risposte cognitive ed emotive durante la lettura di racconti di tipo diverso: un esperimento testuale», in D. Borgogni, G. P. Caprettini e C. Vaglio Marengo, a cura di, Forma breve, Torino, Accademia University Press, 2016, pp. 95-108 (con M. C. Levorato e L. Ronconi). In questo articolo vengono studiate le risposte cognitive ed emotive prodotte durante la lettura di testi narrativi di tipo diverso. La traduzione italiana del racconto di Borges La muerte y la brújula (La morte e la bussola) è stata presentata a gruppi di lettori nella versione originale e in una versione manipolata, che ometteva il paragrafo iniziale, in cui venivano introdotti i due personaggi principali. Ai lettori è stato chiesto di valutare come avevano sperimentato le seguenti risposte di lettura: percezione della coerenza del testo, curiosità, emozione, empatia, percezione della facilità del testo, evocazione di immagini, impatto, interesse, coinvolgimento, piacere, piacere per il finale, comprensibilità finale, sorpresa, sorpresa per il finale e suspense. Un’analisi fattoriale ha evidenziato gli stessi tre fattori già trovati in esperimenti precedenti, riguardanti racconti di Poe e di Tarchetti: 1. partecipazione emotiva dei lettori; 2. violazione delle aspettative dei lettori; 3. valutazione cognitiva delle caratteristiche testuali che rendono il racconto comprensibile (si veda LEVORATO e NEMESIO 2005). Sono state trovate delle differenze in relazione al genere dei lettori e alla tipologia testuale: a) i lettori di genere maschile hanno mostrato una maggior partecipazione emotiva verso il racconto poliziesco di Borges; b) la differenza delle versioni del racconto di Borges hanno influenzato in modo significativo le risposte di lettura che riguardano l’empatia per i due personaggi principali.
Steven TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK Bibliography of Contextual (Systemic and Empirical) Approaches in the S... more Steven TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK Bibliography of Contextual (Systemic and Empirical) Approaches in the Study of Literature and Culture This Bibliography contains works following the theoretical and methodological premises and postulates established in Itamar Even-Zohar's polysystem theory, Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, Siegfried J. Schmidt's empirical study of literature (Empirische Literaturwissenschaft), Jacques Dubois's theory of the literary institution (l'institution littéraire), and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the literary field (champ littéraire). Relevant items are also included from systems-oriented frameworks following Robert Estivals's système d'écriture and the macrosystem approach of Immanuel Wallerstein. Several of these theoretical frameworks are less known on the theoretical landscape of US-American scholarship and thus the "contextual" designation comes closest to the postulates of the frameworks each of which with various degrees of systems and/or empirical orientation. The bibliography includes 1) theoretical and meta-theoretical studies, 2) applications of above frameworks, and 3) selected works whose theoretical trajectory, although not explicitly stated, is similar to above frameworks.
Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
This article examines cognitive and emotional responses produced while reading a short story. The... more This article examines cognitive and emotional responses produced while reading a short story. The text was presented in the original and in two modified versions, which differed in the presence or absence of anticipations. Readers were presented with a questionnaire concerning their responses. Effects of text version, gender, and type of academic studies were examined. A factorial analysis explored the underlying dimensions of the 15 variables. Three factors emerged, concerning readers' participation in the story, responses to the violation of their expectations, and cognitive evaluation of the textual features that make the story comprehensible. Women scored significantly higher on the first factor and the presence or absence of anticipations significantly influenced the second factor.
Absztrakt A tanulmany a szerzők Traversing a Borges labyrinth: searching for the transcultural as... more Absztrakt A tanulmany a szerzők Traversing a Borges labyrinth: searching for the transcultural aspects of literary reading cimű munkajanak (Fictions, 2012, XI. 59–76.) magyar nyelvű valtozata. Borges Az elagazo osvenyek kertje cimű elbeszelesenek feldolgozasat vizsgaltuk amerikai, magyar es olasz egyetemi hallgatoknal, az affektiv reakcio, a szovegsajatossagok megitelese, a jelentestulajdonitas, a hős es a szerző jellemzese, valamint a k.sz.-ek kulturajatol egyarant elterő kultura kepviselőire iranyulo attitűd meghatarozasa reven. Borges szovege alkalmas volt, hogy az un. naiv (nem szakertő) olvasok megertesenek kozos modjait tarjuk fel. A tortenet a (poszt)modern fikcionak az a fajtaja, amelyik elkeruli a hagyomanyos pszichologiai elemeket es elszemelyteleniti az elbeszelest. Mindazonaltal a szoban forgo olvasok arra torekednek, hogy megszemelyesitsek a hősoket es a cselekmenyt. Adataink azt jelzik, hogy tekintet nelkul kulturajukra, az olvasok egyidejűleg a belső es a kulső vilaguk megertesere torekedne...
CoSMo | Comparative Studies in Modernism, Jun 29, 2014
ALDO NEMESIO • Le ragioni della ricerca empirica sul testo CoSMo Comparative studies in modernism... more ALDO NEMESIO • Le ragioni della ricerca empirica sul testo CoSMo Comparative studies in modernism n. 4 • 2014 141 ALDO NEMESIO LE RAGIONI DELLA RICERCA EMPIRICA SUL TESTO La letteratura è stata spesso studiata in modo poco soddisfacente. Scriveva giustamente Bourdieu: Mi limiterò a chiedere per quali ragioni tanti critici, tanti scrittori e tanti filosofi sostengano con tanto compiacimento che l'esperienza dell'opera d'arte è ineffabile e si sottrae per definizione alla conoscenza razionale; per quale ragione si affrettino a proclamare, senza combattere, la sconfitta del sapere; da dove derivi loro questo bisogno così potente di svilire la conoscenza razionale, questa smania di affermare l'irriducibilità dell'opera d'arte o, con un termine più appropriato, la sua trascendenza 1 .
When we read the description of a character, we receive explicit information and construct a sema... more When we read the description of a character, we receive explicit information and construct a semantic representation of his/her aspect and personality. This constructive process also involves inferential processes based on the elaboration of explicit information. In this article we examined the first introduction of four female characters in Italian novels. When readers reported information that was not given in the texts, we had evidence of their constructive processes based on their inferences and world knowledge. In our study readers tended to concretize traits that were not explicitly stated in the text, with high values of the Gini index, showing different concretizations in different readers. This tendency was quite pervasive among readers, regardless of gender, academic education and interest in the text read; such constructive process seems to be intrinsic to the act of reading itself. In literary theory, there is general agreement that characters in narrative texts are constructed by readers by means of inferences, making use of readers'
Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, and the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons Dedicat... more Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, and the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
Literary anthropology brings about a remarkable change of paradigm in literary studies. Human lit... more Literary anthropology brings about a remarkable change of paradigm in literary studies. Human literary behavior is the main object of study, in an investigation that tries to understand human activities related to writing, distributing, and reading objects which - in ways that differ in different cultures - are called literature. Well-organized teamwork is necessary, because we have to deal with large numbers of texts in a project that requires skilled competence in different languages and cultures. Since the dimensions of the field grow enormously - from a limited number of canonical texts written in the same language to all the literatures in the world - it is possible that our research objects will not be individual texts, but textual types, that is generalizations based on the examination of a high number of texts, a representative sampling of the object of our study.
«Risposte cognitive ed emotive durante la lettura di racconti di tipo diverso: un esperimento tes... more «Risposte cognitive ed emotive durante la lettura di racconti di tipo diverso: un esperimento testuale», in D. Borgogni, G. P. Caprettini e C. Vaglio Marengo, a cura di, Forma breve, Torino, Accademia University Press, 2016, pp. 95-108 (con M. C. Levorato e L. Ronconi). In questo articolo vengono studiate le risposte cognitive ed emotive prodotte durante la lettura di testi narrativi di tipo diverso. La traduzione italiana del racconto di Borges La muerte y la brújula (La morte e la bussola) è stata presentata a gruppi di lettori nella versione originale e in una versione manipolata, che ometteva il paragrafo iniziale, in cui venivano introdotti i due personaggi principali. Ai lettori è stato chiesto di valutare come avevano sperimentato le seguenti risposte di lettura: percezione della coerenza del testo, curiosità, emozione, empatia, percezione della facilità del testo, evocazione di immagini, impatto, interesse, coinvolgimento, piacere, piacere per il finale, comprensibilità finale, sorpresa, sorpresa per il finale e suspense. Un’analisi fattoriale ha evidenziato gli stessi tre fattori già trovati in esperimenti precedenti, riguardanti racconti di Poe e di Tarchetti: 1. partecipazione emotiva dei lettori; 2. violazione delle aspettative dei lettori; 3. valutazione cognitiva delle caratteristiche testuali che rendono il racconto comprensibile (si veda LEVORATO e NEMESIO 2005). Sono state trovate delle differenze in relazione al genere dei lettori e alla tipologia testuale: a) i lettori di genere maschile hanno mostrato una maggior partecipazione emotiva verso il racconto poliziesco di Borges; b) la differenza delle versioni del racconto di Borges hanno influenzato in modo significativo le risposte di lettura che riguardano l’empatia per i due personaggi principali.
Steven TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK Bibliography of Contextual (Systemic and Empirical) Approaches in the S... more Steven TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK Bibliography of Contextual (Systemic and Empirical) Approaches in the Study of Literature and Culture This Bibliography contains works following the theoretical and methodological premises and postulates established in Itamar Even-Zohar's polysystem theory, Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, Siegfried J. Schmidt's empirical study of literature (Empirische Literaturwissenschaft), Jacques Dubois's theory of the literary institution (l'institution littéraire), and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the literary field (champ littéraire). Relevant items are also included from systems-oriented frameworks following Robert Estivals's système d'écriture and the macrosystem approach of Immanuel Wallerstein. Several of these theoretical frameworks are less known on the theoretical landscape of US-American scholarship and thus the "contextual" designation comes closest to the postulates of the frameworks each of which with various degrees of systems and/or empirical orientation. The bibliography includes 1) theoretical and meta-theoretical studies, 2) applications of above frameworks, and 3) selected works whose theoretical trajectory, although not explicitly stated, is similar to above frameworks.
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