David S Miall
Biographic Data
| ID | 631028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Miall |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Miall |
| SIGNATURE | MIALL D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Feeling for Literature: Empirical Stylistics
In this paper I examine the contribution of feelings to the reader's literary understanding, focussing on aspects of response that have been studied through the use of empirical methods. I first provide a review of several components of feeling that have been found of importance in literary reading. I then focus on the role of feelings at several different levels. At the level of the stylistics of the text I consider studies of response to foregr…
Emotions and the Structuring of Narrative Responses
Research that suggests the primacy of the emotions provides the context for a study of some of the processes sustained by the emotions during literary reading. In particular, the early processing of emotion in response to language, including narrative, is shown by several ERP (evoked-response potentials) studies that focus on the first 500 msecs of response. These studies suggest the possibility that emotion plays a key role in subsequent cogniti…
"Wordsworth's "First-Born Affinities: Intimations of Embodied Cognition
In his early poetic writing (around 1797-99), William Wordsworth (1770-1850) often expressed a sense of animism: a sentience to be found not only in living beings but also in the air and in stones. Support for the underlying, psychological meaning of Wordsworth's account is provided by recent developments in the study of embodied cognition, now taken as shaped by feelings and by our different senses, including kinesthetic and other bodily process…
Locating Self-Modifying Feelings Within Literary Reading
Self-modifying feelings during literary reading were studied in relation to the personality trait, absorption. Participants read a short story, described their experience of 3 striking or evocative passages in the story, and completed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen, 1982). Compared to readers with either low or moderate absorption scores, those high in absorption were more likely to report affective theme variations and self-perceptual s…
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading
Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reade…
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning
The poetics of babytalk
A feeling for fiction: Becoming What We Behold
Sounds of contrast: An Empirical Approach to Phonemic Iconicity
Experiencing narrative worlds: On the psychological activities of reading
What is literariness? Three components of literary reading
It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness " has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent postmodern literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive psychology has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical studies of literary readers reveals traces…
The form of reading: Empirical studies of literariness
The form of reading: Empirical studies of literariness
Coleridge and dreams: An introduction
Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire
A newly developed instrument, the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ), provides scales that measure seven different aspects of readers’ orientation toward literary texts: Insight, Empathy, Imagery Vividness, Leisure Escape, Concern with Author, Story-Driven Reading, and Rejection of Literary Values. The present report presents evidence that each of these scales possesses satisfactory internal consistency, retest reliability, and factorial valid…
Anticipation and feeling in literary response: A neuropsychological perspective
Beyond text theory: Understanding literary response
Approaches to text comprehension that focus on propositional, inferential, and elaborative processes have often been considered capable of extension in principle to literary texts, such as stories or poems. However, we argue that literary response is influenced by stylistic features that result in defamiliarization; that defamiliarization evokes feeling which, in turn, elicits personal perspectives and meanings; and that these aspects of literary…
Foregrounding, defamiliarization, and affect: Response to literary stories
Readers' responses to narrative: Evaluating, relating, anticipating
Welcome the crisis! Rethinking learning methods in English studies
Dissatisfactions with current teaching of English are caused by a misalignment between recent theoretical understanding of the subject and teaching methods which remain largely concerned with interpretations of texts. A model of student-centred learning is described, which offers specific answers to four problems: student motivation, the acquisition of methods appropriate to the discipline, how to transfer authority from texts and teachers to the…
Affect and narrative
Learning in autonomous student groups: Learning skills as a predictor of satisfaction
Emotion and the self: The context of remembering
In an incidental learning task, the effectiveness of self-reference as a learning strategy is equalled by that of reference to a friend in terms of amount of material remembered, and both are more effective than reference to imagery or the commonness of material. The results of the present study, however, show that reference to the self enhances memory for emotional material compared with reference to a friend; but emotionally neutral material is…
The Structure of Response: A Repertory Grid Study of a Poem
Responses to one poem, Coleridge's Frost at Midnight, were studied using repertory grid technique. Twenty-one undergraduate stu- dents of English literature participated. A significant commonality in response was found within the grids, suggesting that for this group of readers a number of invariant features in the poem were determining response. The grids also brought to light individual differences in approach to the poem, which were explored d…
Metaphor: Problems and Perspectives
Foregrounding, defamiliarization, and affect: Response to literary stories
A feeling for fiction: Becoming What We Behold
Beyond text theory: Understanding literary response
Approaches to text comprehension that focus on propositional, inferential, and elaborative processes have often been considered capable of extension in principle to literary texts, such as stories or poems. However, we argue that literary response is influenced by stylistic features that result in defamiliarization; that defamiliarization evokes feeling which, in turn, elicits personal perspectives and meanings; and that these aspects of literary…
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading
Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reade…
What is literariness? Three components of literary reading
It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness " has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent postmodern literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive psychology has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical studies of literary readers reveals traces…
The poetics of babytalk
Anticipation and feeling in literary response: A neuropsychological perspective
Affect and narrative
Emotions and the Structuring of Narrative Responses
Research that suggests the primacy of the emotions provides the context for a study of some of the processes sustained by the emotions during literary reading. In particular, the early processing of emotion in response to language, including narrative, is shown by several ERP (evoked-response potentials) studies that focus on the first 500 msecs of response. These studies suggest the possibility that emotion plays a key role in subsequent cogniti…
Readers' responses to narrative: Evaluating, relating, anticipating
Emotion and the self: The context of remembering
In an incidental learning task, the effectiveness of self-reference as a learning strategy is equalled by that of reference to a friend in terms of amount of material remembered, and both are more effective than reference to imagery or the commonness of material. The results of the present study, however, show that reference to the self enhances memory for emotional material compared with reference to a friend; but emotionally neutral material is…
Locating Self-Modifying Feelings Within Literary Reading
Self-modifying feelings during literary reading were studied in relation to the personality trait, absorption. Participants read a short story, described their experience of 3 striking or evocative passages in the story, and completed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen, 1982). Compared to readers with either low or moderate absorption scores, those high in absorption were more likely to report affective theme variations and self-perceptual s…
Sounds of contrast: An Empirical Approach to Phonemic Iconicity
"Wordsworth's "First-Born Affinities: Intimations of Embodied Cognition
In his early poetic writing (around 1797-99), William Wordsworth (1770-1850) often expressed a sense of animism: a sentience to be found not only in living beings but also in the air and in stones. Support for the underlying, psychological meaning of Wordsworth's account is provided by recent developments in the study of embodied cognition, now taken as shaped by feelings and by our different senses, including kinesthetic and other bodily process…
Experiencing narrative worlds: On the psychological activities of reading
Metaphor and Literary Meaning
Journal Article METAPHOR AND LITERARY MEANING Get access David S. Miall David S. Miall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 17, Issue 1, WINTER 1977, Pages 49–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/17.1.49 Published: 01 January 1977
Kant's Critique of Judgement: A Biased Aesthetics
Journal Article KANT'S CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT: A Biased Aesthetics Get access David S. Miall David S. Miall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 20, Issue 2, SPRING 1980, Pages 135–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/20.2.135 Published: 01 February 1980
Metaphor: Problems and Perspectives
The Aesthetics of Love in Coleridge
Journal Article THE AESTHETICS OF LOVE IN COLERIDGE Get access David S. Miall David S. Miall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 23, Issue 1, WINTER 1983, Pages 18–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/23.1.18 Published: 01 January 1983
The Structure of Response: A Repertory Grid Study of a Poem
Responses to one poem, Coleridge's Frost at Midnight, were studied using repertory grid technique. Twenty-one undergraduate stu- dents of English literature participated. A significant commonality in response was found within the grids, suggesting that for this group of readers a number of invariant features in the poem were determining response. The grids also brought to light individual differences in approach to the poem, which were explored d…
Emotion and the self: The context of remembering
In an incidental learning task, the effectiveness of self-reference as a learning strategy is equalled by that of reference to a friend in terms of amount of material remembered, and both are more effective than reference to imagery or the commonness of material. The results of the present study, however, show that reference to the self enhances memory for emotional material compared with reference to a friend; but emotionally neutral material is…
Learning in autonomous student groups: Learning skills as a predictor of satisfaction
Affect and narrative
Welcome the crisis! Rethinking learning methods in English studies
Dissatisfactions with current teaching of English are caused by a misalignment between recent theoretical understanding of the subject and teaching methods which remain largely concerned with interpretations of texts. A model of student-centred learning is described, which offers specific answers to four problems: student motivation, the acquisition of methods appropriate to the discipline, how to transfer authority from texts and teachers to the…
Readers' responses to narrative: Evaluating, relating, anticipating
Beyond text theory: Understanding literary response
Approaches to text comprehension that focus on propositional, inferential, and elaborative processes have often been considered capable of extension in principle to literary texts, such as stories or poems. However, we argue that literary response is influenced by stylistic features that result in defamiliarization; that defamiliarization evokes feeling which, in turn, elicits personal perspectives and meanings; and that these aspects of literary…
Foregrounding, defamiliarization, and affect: Response to literary stories
Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire
A newly developed instrument, the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ), provides scales that measure seven different aspects of readers’ orientation toward literary texts: Insight, Empathy, Imagery Vividness, Leisure Escape, Concern with Author, Story-Driven Reading, and Rejection of Literary Values. The present report presents evidence that each of these scales possesses satisfactory internal consistency, retest reliability, and factorial valid…
Anticipation and feeling in literary response: A neuropsychological perspective
Coleridge and dreams: An introduction
The form of reading: Empirical studies of literariness
The form of reading: Empirical studies of literariness
What is literariness? Three components of literary reading
It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness " has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent postmodern literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive psychology has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical studies of literary readers reveals traces…
Experiencing narrative worlds: On the psychological activities of reading
Sounds of contrast: An Empirical Approach to Phonemic Iconicity
A feeling for fiction: Becoming What We Behold
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning
The poetics of babytalk
Locating Self-Modifying Feelings Within Literary Reading
Self-modifying feelings during literary reading were studied in relation to the personality trait, absorption. Participants read a short story, described their experience of 3 striking or evocative passages in the story, and completed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen, 1982). Compared to readers with either low or moderate absorption scores, those high in absorption were more likely to report affective theme variations and self-perceptual s…
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading
Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reade…
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