TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints737
UR  - http://cogprints.org/737/
A1  - Miall, David S.
A1  - Kuiken, Don
Y1  - 1994/08//
N2  - The notion that stylistic features of literary texts deautomatize perception is central to a tradition of literary theory from Coleridge through Shklovsky and Mukarovský to Van Peer. Stylistic variations, known as foregrounding, hypothetically prompt defamiliarization, evoke feelings, and prolong reading time. These possibilities were tested in four studies in which segment by segment reading times and ratings were collected from readers of a short story. In each study, foregrounded segments of the story were associated with increased reading times, greater strikingness ratings, and greater affect ratings. Response to foregrounding appeared to be independent of literary competence or experience. Reasons for considering readers' response to foregrounding as a distinctive aspect of interaction with literary texts are discussed.
KW  - reading process
KW  -  feeling
KW  -  literary theory
KW  -  phonetics
KW  -  semantics
KW  -  defamiliarization
KW  -  narrative
KW  -  foregrounding
KW  -  language
TI  - Foregrounding, Defamiliarization, and Affect: Response to Literary Stories
SP  - 389
AV  - public
EP  - 407
ER  -

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