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- Title
Intermediate states of literariness.
- Authors
Hanauer, David I.
- Abstract
This study utilizes texts which sit between the literary and non-literary to explore the outcomes and mechanisms of literariness. Literariness can be activated by (a) linguistic foregrounding and (b) paratextual specification. In a 2 × 2 design, manipulated versions of two soldier narratives were produced (poetry/fiction; poetry/fact; prose/fiction; prose/poetry). 215 participants were randomly assigned to read one of the textual versions and respond to rating scales dealing with perception of textual features, empathy, sympathy, and cognitive perspective-taking. The results show that poetic form elicits significantly higher ratings for empathy and sympathy and that paratextual information specifying that a text is factual elicits significantly higher ratings for empathy and cognitive perspective-taking. Two structural equation models were defined: (a) a literariness model and (b) a factual accuracy model. The results suggest an additive dual model of processing in which both poetic form and factual definition contribute to outcomes characteristic of literariness. These results offer some support for the hypotheses of the Neuro-Cognitive Poetics Model proposed by (Jacobs, 2011).
- Subjects
FOREGROUNDING; LITERARY style; LINGUOSTYLISTICS; ETHNOLOGY; PARATEXT
- Publication
Scientific Study of Literature, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 1, p114
- ISSN
2210-4372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ssol.18001.han