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Don't just take our word for it..

a short selection of some interesting research articles on reading and the reception of literary fiction

(2020): Canning, P. "'I love the stories - they weren't boring': Narrative Gaps, the 'Disnarrated' and the Significance of Style in Prison Reading Groups", in The Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to the Present. Eds. Mary Hammond and Jonathan Rose.

 

(2017): Special Issue: Reader-Response, Language and Literature (Canning and Whiteley)

 

(2017): Canning, P. "Text World Theory and Real World Readers: From Literature to Life in a Belfast Prison", Language and Literature.

 

(2012): Canning, P. “Poetic Justice: A Narrative of Belfast Breakthroughs”, The Reader 48: 59-65

 

(2011): Whiteley, S. "Talking about 'An Accommodation': The Implications of Discussion Group Data For Community Engagement and Pedagogy", Language and Literature, 20 (3): 236-56.

 

(2009): Special Issue: Literary Reading As Social Practice, Language and Literature, 18 (3)

 

(2009): “On Being Moved By Art: How Reading Fiction Transforms the Self”, Djikic, Oatley, Zoeterman and Peterson, 21 (1): 24-29

 

(2008): “The Reading Cure”, Blake Morrison, The Guardian (5 January)

 

(2008): “Effects of Reading on Knowledge, Social Abilities and Selfhood: Theory and Empirical Studies”, Mar, Djikic and Oatley, in Directions in Empirical Studies in Literature: In Honour of Willie Van Peer, pp. 127-137

 

(2008): “The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience”, Raymond A. Mar and Keith Oatley, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3 (3)

 

(2007): “Reading Between The Lines: The Experiences of Taking Part in a Community Reading Project”, Davis, Hodge and Robinson, Medical Humanities, 33 (2): 100-104

 

(1999): “Why Fiction May Be Twice As True As Fact: Fiction as Cognitive and Emotional Simulation”, Keith Oatley, Review of General Psychology, 3 (2): 101-117

 

Susan Gonsalves "Changing Lives Through Literature", (Reading Literature as an alternative to sentencing in the American Criminal Justice sector)

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