Abstract
Readers often have quite different experiences of literary texts. In this article, I suggest that readers’ life experiences affect the knowledge they bring to bear on narrative experiences as well as the responses they encode as those experiences unfold. I use an episode from the novel Transmission to illustrate potential individual differences in a literary context.
Journal eISSN: 2210-4380
Language: English
Page range: 88 - 94
Published on: Jan 1, 2011
Published by: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2011 Richard Gerrig, published by International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
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