Author: Philip Davis Publisher: Frontiers Media SA ISBN: 283252303X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
‘Psychology in Action’ is a term coined by the Guest Editors from the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), University of Liverpool, in their work in filming, recording and analyzing shared reading groups, led by The Reader organization. It refers both to the work of psychology within literary texts and to the responses of multifarious reader-participants to literature read live and aloud in small community groups within a variety of settings. In particular, ‘psychology in action’ has meant seeing readers suddenly activated into deep personal thinking, responding to situations imaginatively simulated by reading literature in ways that trigger surprised and involuntary emotion, autobiographical memory and spontaneous empathy.
Author: Various Authors Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351335987 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 4060
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The psychology of reading investigates the process by which readers extract visual information from written text and make sense of it. Psychology Library Editions: Psychology of Reading (11 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1980 and 1995. The set includes topics such as dyslexia and the relationship between speech and reading.
Author: Maria Nikolajeva Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027269955 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 257
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How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young audience, from picturebooks to young adult novels, the combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional and social maturation.
Author: Patrick White Publisher: ISBN: 9781700536549 Category : Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
Need help in English class? Need help in going deeper into literature? Psychology to the rescue! Written for high school students by a high school AP English and Psychology teacher, Literature Through Psychology offers astute analysis in a friendly, engaging tone. Psychological insights into the most commonly read literary works in schools, including...1984, Brave New World, Candide, Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, Fahrenheit 451, Frankenstein, The Glass Menagerie, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, Night, The Odyssey, Of Mice and Men, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice, A Raisin in the Sun, Romeo and Juliet, Siddhartha, The Scarlet Letter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Things They Carried. And many more...
Author: Josie Billington Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030217620 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 455
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This book brings together into one edited volume the most compelling rationales for literary reading and health, the best current practices in this area and state of the art research methodologies. It consolidates the findings and insights of this burgeoning field of enquiry across diverse disciplines and groups: psychologists, neurologists, and social scientists; literary scholars, writers and philosophers; medical researchers and practitioners; reading charities and arts organisations. Following introductory chapters on the literary-historical background to reading and health, the book is divided into four key sections. The first part focuses on Practices, showcasing reading interventions and cultures in clinical and community mental health care and in secure settings. This is followed by Research Methodologies, featuring innovative qualitative and quantitative approaches, and by a section covering Theory, with chapters from eminent thinkers in psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis. The final part is concerned with Implementation, incorporating perspectives from health professionals, commissioners and reading practitioners. This innovate work explains why reading matters in health and wellbeing, and offers a foundational text to future scholars in the field and to health professionals and policy-makers in relation to the embedding of reading practices in professional health care.
Author: V. Nell Publisher: ISBN: 9780300041156 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 336
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Examines the social forces that have shaped reading, discusses the nature of reading skills, and suggests connections between reading and dreaming and hypnotic trance
Author: Paula Leverage Publisher: Purdue University Press ISBN: 1612492002 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 341
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Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central to such commercial endeavors as market research and product development, but it is also just as important in maintaining human relations over a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, it is a critical tool in reading and understanding literature, which abounds with characters, situations, and "other people's shoes." Furthermore, it is becoming increasingly apparent that reading literature also hones these critical mindreading skills. Theory of Mind and Literature is a collection of nineteen essays by prominent scholars (linguists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers) working in the cutting-edge field of cognitive literary studies, which explores how we use Theory of Mind in reading and understanding literature.
Author: Philip Davis
Author: Edmund Burke Huey
Author: Various Authors
Author: Maria Nikolajeva
Author: Patrick White
Author: Josie Billington
Author: V. Nell
Author: V. Nell
Author: János László
Author: Paula Leverage