Directions in Empirical Literary Studies

1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives; 3. Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunction (by Margolin, Uri); 4. Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validity (by Hall, Geoff M.); 5. Notes toward a new philology (by Freeman, Donald C.); 6. A theory of expressive reading (by Kuiken, Don); 7. Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature; 8. Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary response (by Dixon, Peter); 9. Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative (by Miall, David S.); 10. Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives (by Shen, Yeshayahu); 11. Narrative empathy and inter-group relations (by Laszlo, Janos); 12. Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies (by Mar, Raymond); 13. Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognition (by Hakemulder, Frank); 14. Part III. Computers and the humanities; 15. An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions (by Graesser, Arthur C.); 16. Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary Texts (by Louwerse, Max M.); 17. Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics (by Kimmel, Michael); 18. Searching for style in modern American poetry (by Hoover, David L.); 19. The laws governing the history of poetry (by Martindale, Colin); 20. Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms. (by Louw, Bill); 21. Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation; 22. Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical variety (by Viana, Vander); 23. Language allergy: Myth or reality (by Sergeyeva, Mariya); 24. Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings (by Yepishev, Vladimir); 25. Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea (by Prasil, Jan); 26. The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in Poland (by Maryl, Maciej); 27. Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in English (by Nash, Walter); 28. About the contributors; 29. Index of authors; 30. Index of keywords