592016867 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LAL 42 Eb 15 9789027246974 06 10.1075/lal.42 13 2024006903 DG 002 02 01 LAL 02 1569-3112 Linguistic Approaches to Literature 42 01 lal.42 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/lal.42 1 A01 Olivia Fialho Fialho, Olivia Olivia Fialho Utrecht University | Huygens Institute (KNAW) 01 eng 275 xii 263 LAN010000 v.2006 CFC 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.NAR Narrative Studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.WRIT Writing and literacy 24 JB Subject Scheme LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 06 01 Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such experience, challenge readers and extend their imagination by means of complex or deviating plots. Reading literary narrative fiction helps readers develop imaginary selves in a safe way, enhancing their theory of mind. It might also contribute to the development of readers’ interpersonal competencies and foster pro-sociality, altruistic behaviour, and empathy. This book uses empirical research methods to focus on the processes of literary reading, revealing two pathways for the transformative powers of literature. It also reveals how an understanding of these pathways might be beneficial in educational settings – in schools, in the workplace, and in medical contexts. 05 This book is a thoughtful and methodologically-sophisticated deep dive into one of the most essential questions in literary studies: how reading helps give meaning to people’s lives. It weaves together quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide empirical insights, a roadmap for future research, and valuable guidelines for improving literary education. It is a wonderful addition to the empirical literary studies tradition. Melanie Green, University at Buffalo 05 This erudite volume on transformative reading is a must read for anyone working in literary pedagogy. Fialho succeeds admirably in bringing clearly argued empirical research to bear to highlight the effects that literary reading can have on our perceptual cognitive and emotional capacities, as cultured human beings. Reading this book on transformative reading is a transformational act in itself. Teachers of literature will find it truly inspirational. Michael Burke, University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University 05 Reading changes lives – but how can we study such transformative experiences with literature? Fialho’s book offers a new, compelling look at old questions, bringing into play aesthetic experience, readers’ sense of self and the literary text in her bid to understand the transformative power of literature. Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo 05 A must-read for all literature, stylistics, and cognitive poetics scholars and teachers of literature, Fialho’s book is a major step forward in contemporary literary studies, offering a theoretically rich and analytically productive approach to the process of reading. Relying on an innovatively construed range of theories and developing a compelling empirical paradigm, it offers a typology of reading experiences which brings the conversations on ‘reader response’ to a whole new level. 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Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such experience, challenge readers and extend their imagination by means of complex or deviating plots. Reading literary narrative fiction helps readers develop imaginary selves in a safe way, enhancing their theory of mind. It might also contribute to the development of readers’ interpersonal competencies and foster pro-sociality, altruistic behaviour, and empathy. This book uses empirical research methods to focus on the processes of literary reading, revealing two pathways for the transformative powers of literature. It also reveals how an understanding of these pathways might be beneficial in educational settings – in schools, in the workplace, and in medical contexts. 05 This book is a thoughtful and methodologically-sophisticated deep dive into one of the most essential questions in literary studies: how reading helps give meaning to people’s lives. It weaves together quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide empirical insights, a roadmap for future research, and valuable guidelines for improving literary education. It is a wonderful addition to the empirical literary studies tradition. Melanie Green, University at Buffalo 05 This erudite volume on transformative reading is a must read for anyone working in literary pedagogy. Fialho succeeds admirably in bringing clearly argued empirical research to bear to highlight the effects that literary reading can have on our perceptual cognitive and emotional capacities, as cultured human beings. Reading this book on transformative reading is a transformational act in itself. Teachers of literature will find it truly inspirational. Michael Burke, University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University 05 Reading changes lives – but how can we study such transformative experiences with literature? Fialho’s book offers a new, compelling look at old questions, bringing into play aesthetic experience, readers’ sense of self and the literary text in her bid to understand the transformative power of literature. Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo 05 A must-read for all literature, stylistics, and cognitive poetics scholars and teachers of literature, Fialho’s book is a major step forward in contemporary literary studies, offering a theoretically rich and analytically productive approach to the process of reading. Relying on an innovatively construed range of theories and developing a compelling empirical paradigm, it offers a typology of reading experiences which brings the conversations on ‘reader response’ to a whole new level. 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