Literary expertise in the description of a fictional narrative

Graves, Barbara Ann; Frederiksen, Carl H.

doi:10.1016/0304-422x(91)90031-j

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“…Research on literary experts supports Rabinowitz's (1987) theory in that experts have been found to rely on the heuristics described above (e.g., repetition) when reading literature (Graves & Frederiksen, 1991;Zeitz, 1994). For example, Graves and Frederiksen (1991) demonstrated that literary experts engaged in more interpretive reasoning than novices when asked to read part of a literary work, The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982), and engage in a concurrent think-aloud while reading.…”

Section: Literary Interpretations: Experts Versus Novicesmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…Note that the abstracted thematic interpretation generalizes beyond the world of the story to the world and the human condition at large, whereas the thematic interpretation remains tied to the events of the story. These three types of interpretations align with the purposes and goals of reading literary texts as described by researchers and literary theorists and as supported by research conducted with literary experts (Graves & Frederiksen, 1991;Langer, 2011;Lee, 2011;Rabinowitz, 1987;Vipond & Hunt, 1984;Zeitz, 1994).…”

Section: Introduction Literary Reading and Interpretationsmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…For example, Graves and Frederiksen (1991) demonstrated that literary experts engaged in more interpretive reasoning than novices when asked to read part of a literary work, The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982), and engage in a concurrent think-aloud while reading. Analyses of the protocols revealed that literary novices tended to provide close paraphrases of the text such as "Sofia is in jail" (Graves & Frederiksen, 1991, p. 7), whereas experts provided what Graves and Frederiksen called derived descriptions of the text, such as "We have a mini narrative within the larger story" and "There is a black-white conflict" (Graves & Frederiksen, 1991, p. 7).…”

Section: Literary Interpretations: Experts Versus Novicesmentioning

confidence: 97%

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“Getting the Point” of Literature: Relations Between Processing and Interpretation

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Goldman

2016

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Comparisons of literary experts and novices indicate that experts engage in interpretive processes to "get the point" during their reading of literary texts but novices do not. In two studies the reading and interpretive processes of literary novices (undergraduates with no formal training in literature study) were elicited through think-alouds during reading and a post-reading interview task. Twenty undergraduates read one of two short stories in each of two studies (n ¼ 80). Both studies used the same methodology, except that the instructions for Study 2 emphasized the importance of interpretation when reading literary short stories. Results indicate that literary novices noticed cues to interpretive meaning during reading but were more likely to provide literary interpretations (symbolic and thematic) during the interview task as compared with when reading (Study 1 and 2) and when the instructions emphasized interpretation (Study 2 as compared with Study 1). In both studies there were positive relationships between elaborative processing during reading and (1) providing interpretations during reading and thinking aloud and (2) producing prompted interpretations during the post-reading interview task. The present studies provide evidence that literary novices can and do generate literary interpretations, albeit less sophisticated than those experts would likely generate. Further, elaborative processing during reading was positively related to interpretations. Implications for instruction to enhance literary interpretations are discussed.

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Section: Literary Interpretations: Experts Versus Novicesmentioning

confidence: 69%

Section: Introduction Literary Reading and Interpretationsmentioning

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Goldman

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“…Vignettes can also be presented on audiotape (Sigelman et al 1992a andb, Ward et al 1994), videotape (Cohen and Strayer 1996, Leierer et al 1996, Hart and Morry 1997, and computers (Stolte 1994, Vitkoritch andTyrell 1995). Other forms of presentation have been used as vignettes and these include literature (Graves and Frederiksen 1991), news stories (Johnson et al 1997), popular music such as rap (Barongan and Hall 1995) and rock music (Lawrence and Joyner 1991), music videos (Peterson andPfost 1989, Johnson et al 1995a and, film (Barongan andHall 1995, Valenti andCostall 1997), art (Bendelow 1993), and photography (Bendelow 1993, Valenti andCostall, 1997).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Considering the Vignette Technique and its Application to a Study of Drug Injecting and HIV Risk and Safer Behaviour

Hughes

1998

Sociology Health & Illness

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Vignettes are stories generated from a range of sources including previous research findings. They make reference to important factors in the study of perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. Vignettes have primarily been used by psychologists in North America and used in quantitative surveys but more recently they have been used in a small number of qualitative studies. Drawing from a range of studies in the social sciences this paper considers the value of vignettes together with the difficulties associated with the technique. It introduces the technique in a study that explores drug injectors' perceptions of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk and safer behaviour inside and outside the prison system.

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“…meaning-for what Vipond and Hunt (1984) (Dixon et al, 1993;Kuiken, 1994, 1998) (Cook, 1994;Gibbs, 2001;Graves and Frederiksen, 1991;Peskin, 1998;Sanford and Emmott, 2012;Zwaan, 1993Zwaan, , 1994Zwaan, , 1996. Of special relevance, for our purposes, is research by Mason, Scirica and Salvi (2006) which shows that prior experience and expertise seem to affect readers' propensity to make interpretive inferences which utilise knowledge from what McCarthy (2015: 107) terms 'the world at large'.…”

Section: Towards An Empirical Study Of Authorial Intentionmentioning

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Literary stylistics, authorial intention and the scientific study of literature: A critical overview

Guy

Conklin

Sanchez-Davies

2018

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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A tendency by literary stylisticians to overlook the role of the author in the generation of literary meaning has been a significant source of tension between linguistic approaches to literariness and other practices in the discipline, such as text-editing and literary biography. Recently, however, efforts have been made to close this gap, with the branch of stylistics, cognitive poetics, claiming to have developed a new and empirical method of integrating an appreciation of authorial imagination and creativity into the study of readers' responses to the language of literary texts. We examine these claims critically, testing the grounds of assertions about scientific rigour in relation to demands about model testing and falsifiability associated with the scientific study of literature more generally. We then explore how some other methodologies, technologies and insights associated with this last branch of the discipline might be brought to bear on the topic of authorial intention, with the aim of determining whether, and in what ways, our understanding of an authorial intention, and its role in literary processing, might be furthered through empirical enquiry.

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Literary expertise in the description of a fictional narrative

Cited by 57 publications

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“Getting the Point” of Literature: Relations Between Processing and Interpretation

“Getting the Point” of Literature: Relations Between Processing and Interpretation

Considering the Vignette Technique and its Application to a Study of Drug Injecting and HIV Risk and Safer Behaviour

Literary stylistics, authorial intention and the scientific study of literature: A critical overview

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