Product Description: This is the first major book in English on literary reading to be based on empirical methods. Moving the focus away from interpretation to the experience of literary texts, these studies demonstrate the role played by feeling in readers’ responses, showing how feeling performs important functions during reading that cannot be accounted for by cognitive understanding...read more

Product Description: The sixth conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, or IGEL, was held in August 1998 in Utrecht, Holland. The conference brought together a wide range of scholars concerned with understanding the place and role of literature in its social, historical, psychological, linguistic, and other dimensions, and who seek to advance our knowledge through empirical methods or more effective theoretical perspectives that may lead to empirical research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This lucid and highly readable volume assesses the significant impact computers are making on research and teaching in all aspects of the humanities, from English literature to archaeology. Each chapter is written by a different author who is actively involved in developing the teaching of Humanities disciplines with the aid of computers...read more