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Full Description
Turning reading into research: Researching literature through its reception.
First methods-focused handbook in the field
Strongly practical and suitable for advanced teaching
Bridging qualitative and quantitative research
For advanced students and early-career researchers
Research Methods in Literary Reception Studies is the first handbook to offer a systematic, hands-on guide to the study of literary reception. It shows how scholars can examine readers' responses to literature, as well as how texts are evaluated, discussed, rewarded, and circulated across social and institutional settings. By combining empirical, sociological, digital, and text-focused approaches, the book offers clear guidance on research design, data collection, and analysis. Each chapter offers step-by-step methodological instructions and illustrates these through a concrete case study. Integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches, and written for advanced students and researchers, this handbook provides a comprehensive methodological toolbox for studying literature as a cultural practice.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Jeroen Dera, Anne Oerlemans and Frederik Van Dam
PART I. EMPIRICAL METHODS
Chapter 2. Designing Self-Completion Questionnaires in Literary Reception Research
Jeroen Dera
Chapter 3. Using Interviews in Literary Reception Research
Jeroen Dera
Chapter 4. Using Focus Groups in Literary Reception Research
Helleke van den Braber
Chapter 5. Analysing Elicitation Data in Literary Reception Research
Jeroen Dera and Helleke van den Braber
PART II. SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS
Chapter 6. Field Theory: Researching and Mapping the Literary Field
Anne Oerlemans
Chapter 7. Posture Analysis
Jos Joosten
Chapter 8. Material Analysis and Book History Methods
Alicia C. Montoya
PART III. DIGITAL METHODS
Chapter 9. Literary Evaluation and Argumentation Analysis
Esther Op de Beek and Bea Ros
Chapter 10. Computer-Assisted Qualitative Analysis
Dennis Kersten and Usha Wilbers
Chapter 11. Computational Analysis: Fanfiction as Literary Reception
Julia Neugarten
Chapter 12. Corpus Analysis: Distant Reading Digitized Periodicals
Maaike Koffeman
PART IV. TEXT-FOCUSED METHODS
Chapter 13. Literary Discourse Analysis
Aukje van Hout
Chapter 14. Close Reading and Reception Studies
Frederik Van Dam
Chapter 15. Translation as Reception
Elke Brems and Jan Ceuppens
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