Henry James "In The Minor Key"
(2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, R. (2021). Henry James "In The Minor Key". In L. Buonomo (Ed.), The Sound of James. The Aural Dimension in Henry James’s Work. Papers from the 8th International Conference of the Henry James Society. Trieste, 4-6 July 2019 (17-34). Trieste, Italy: Edizioni Università di Trieste
All Outputs (8)
‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, R. (2021). ‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction. Textual Practice, 35(6), 941-966. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2021.1936773Since the 1990s, when the late novels of Henry James became a touchstone for the ethical turn in literary criticism, ethical critics of different persuasions, such as Martha Nussbaum and J. Hillis Miller, homed in on certain complex terms and ambiguo... Read More about ‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction.
The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading (2020)
Journal Article
Parente, F., Conklin, K., Guy, J. M., & Scott, R. (2021). The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading. Language and Literature, 30(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947020952200The popularity of literary biographies and the importance publishers place on author publicity materials suggest the concept of an author’s creative intentions is important to readers’ appreciation of literary works. However, the question of how this... Read More about The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading.
Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual features in prose fiction (2019)
Journal Article
Parente, F., Conklin, K., Guy, J., Carrol, G., & Scott, R. (2019). Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual features in prose fiction. Scientific Study of Literature, 9(1), 3-33. https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19006.parWe use eye tracking to investigate the attention readers pay to different textual features to determine their significance in the appreciation of prose fiction. Previous research examined attention allocation to lexical and punctuation variants, and... Read More about Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual features in prose fiction.
Knowing nothing: Wilde and Beckett deranging the aphorism (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott, R. (2019). Knowing nothing: Wilde and Beckett deranging the aphorism. In M. S. Shallcross, & . K. Boyiopoulos (Eds.), Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present. Brill Academic Publishers
Britten's drops: the lyric into song (2018)
Book Chapter
Scott, R. (2018). Britten's drops: the lyric into song. In K. Kennedy (Ed.), Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works. Martlesham: Boydell Press
Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”? (2016)
Journal Article
Guy, J., Scott, R., Conklin, K., & Carrol, G. (2016). Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”?. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 59(4), 435-455Guy, Scott, Conklin, and Carrol join forces to analyze controversial questions about multi-volume variorum editions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers such as Wilde, Conrad, Woolf, James, and Wyndam Lewis. What prompted such ambi... Read More about Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”?.
Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., Conklin, K., Guy, J., & Scott, R. (2015). Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction. Scientific Study of Literature, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.5.2.05conThe digital era has brought with it a shift in the field of literary editing in terms of the amount and kind of textual variation that can reasonably be annotated by editors. However, questions remain about how far readers engage with textual variant... Read More about Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction.