--- abstract: "The notion that stylistic features of literary texts deautomatize perception is central to a tradition of literary theory from Coleridge through Shklovsky and Mukarovskı 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." altloc: - http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/foregrd.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Miall given: David S. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Kuiken given: Don honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1994-08 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-08-21 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/07/37 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 737 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/737/1/foregrd.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'reading process, feeling, literary theory, phonetics, semantics, defamiliarization, narrative, foregrounding, language' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:15 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 5 pagerange: 389-407 pubdom: FALSE publication: Poetics publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:33:44 subjects: - psy-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Foregrounding, Defamiliarization, and Affect: Response to Literary Stories' type: journalp userid: 34 volume: 22