What is it about?
Jacobs directs attention to the methodological diversity that potentially supports studies in empirical studies of literature. The commentary suggests caution about methodological innovations that do not measure the reflectively accessible "experience" of literature and that are not guided by conceptual precision in theory development.
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Why is it important?
The move toward empirical studies of literature potentially bypasses or distorts the theoretical constructs that reflect the aesthetic aspects of reading experience.
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This article reflects my longstanding concern about the effects of neo-positivist philosophy of science on investigations whose focus derives from the humanities.
Don Kuiken
University of Alberta
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This page is a summary of: The implicit erasure of “literary experience” in empirical studies of literature, Scientific Study of Literature, December 2015, International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature,
DOI: 10.1075/ssol.5.2.02kui.
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