All Outputs (4)

The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading (2020)
Journal Article

The 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

We 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.

Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”? (2016)
Journal Article

Guy, 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

The 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.