Readers Reading Literature

In this chapter examples are given of significant investigations into the reading of literature, including: the activities and processes involved in literary reading (reading poetry; reading short stories); possible distinctive features of reading of literature (as opposed to reading of non-literary texts); relative successes and failures in reading literary texts, and possible reasons for these; the special circumstances of reading literature in a second or foreign language. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.