TY  - JOUR
A1  - Knoop, Christine Angela
A1  - Wagner, Valentin
A1  - Jacobsen, Thomas
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
T1  - Mapping the aesthetic space of literature "from below"
T2  - Poetics : journal of empirical research on literature, media and the arts
N2  - The present paper aims to elucidate the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of literature.Following Fechner's "aesthetics from below" (1876) and adopting a method introduced by Jacobsen, Buchta, Kohler, and Schroeger (2004), we asked 1544 German-speaking research participants to list adjectives that they use to label aesthetic dimensions of literature in general and of individual literary forms and genres in particular (novels, short stories, poems, plays, comedies). According to our analyses of frequency, mean list rank, and the Cognitive Salience Index, beautiful and suspenseful rank highest across all target categories. For plays/comedies, funny and sad turned out to be the most relevant terms; for novels and short stories, suspenseful, interesting and romantic; and for poetry romantic, along with the music-related terms harmonious, rhythmic, and melodious. A comparison of our results with analogous studies for visual aesthetics and music yielded a comprehensive map of the distribution of aesthetic appeal dimensions across sensory modalities and aesthetic domains, with poetry and music showing the greatest overlap.
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Poetik
KW  - Literaturgattung
KW  - Aesthetic appeal dimensions
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Terminological mapping
KW  - Empirische Ästhetik
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46905
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-469051
SN  - 0304-422X
VL  - 56
IS  - 56
SP  - 35
EP  - 49
PB  - New York, NY [u.a.]
CY  - Elsevier
ER  -