Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics

Hardback

Main Details

Title Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Prof Willie van Peer
By (author) Prof Anna Chesnokova
SeriesAdvances in Stylistics
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenrePsycholinguistics
Semantics
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781350248014
ClassificationsDewey:808.1
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 26 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 29 December 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Willie van Peer is Professor of Literature and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Anna Chesnokova is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine.

Reviews

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 Chesnokova is 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