Interpretation and Emotion Effects in Literature: Reading Contemporary Experimental Poetry

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Abstract

The chapter focuses on the affective resources of experimental poetry approach is based on the study of emotion effects that sees all elements of a literary text to be positively or negatively “valenced” or value-laden. Utilizing words or phrases that in the language or cultural context carry affective power is the basis of the networks of affective value that are formed in the text. The combinations created in the text manipulate what we already know or feel about language and the world around us. The emerging emotion effects guide the interpretation and an analysis of how these effects are produced allows us to understand more clearly how literature works. The emotion effects are illustrated via a case study of a much praised, award-winning Finnish work, Harry Salmenniemi’s Texas, sakset (2010).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTranslation and Interpretation : Practicing the Knowledge of Literature
EditorsRaul Calzoni, Francesca Di Blasio, Greta Perletti
Number of pages9
Place of PublicationLeck, Germany
PublisherVandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Publication dateAug 2022
Pages39–47
Article number2
ISBN (Print)978-3-8471-1473-4
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-8470-1473-7
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2022
MoE publication typeB2 Book chapter

Bibliographical note

A Volume in Honour of Angela Locatelli.

Fields of Science

  • 6122 Literature studies
  • emotion effects, poetry

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