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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/10.1177/0963947020952200

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.

Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works (2020)
Journal Article
Guy, J. M. (2020). Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 63(3), 346-375

Richard Ellmann termed Vera a "wretched play." In Oscar Wilde Revalued (1983), Ian Small could name only two critics gave it serious attention: Katherine Worth and Frances Miriam Reed. In Oscar Wilde Recent Research (2000), Small again found only two... Read More about Vera; or, The Nihilists: Oscar Wilde’s “Wretched Play” and the Challenges of Reassessing “Minor” Works.

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.par

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.

Literary stylistics, authorial intention and the scientific study of literature: a critical overview (2018)
Journal Article
Guy, J. M., Conklin, K., & Sanchez-Davies, J. (2018). Literary stylistics, authorial intention and the scientific study of literature: a critical overview. Language and Literature, 27(3), 196-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947018788518

A tendency by literary stylisticians to overlook the role of the author in the generation of literary meaning has been a significant source of tension between linguistic approaches to literariness and other practices in the discipline, such as text-e... Read More about Literary stylistics, authorial intention and the scientific study of literature: a critical overview.

The Edinburgh companion to fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts (2017)
Book
Guy, J. (2017). J. Guy (Ed.). The Edinburgh companion to fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures—such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses—of de... Read More about The Edinburgh companion to fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts.

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), 435-455

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
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.5.2.05con

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.