The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of emotions in literary reading. According to the reading comprehension models, emotions are described as having a role to direct the creation of schemata more adequate to the text. But literary ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of emotions in literary reading. According to the reading comprehension models, emotions are described as having a role to direct the creation of schemata more adequate to the text. But literary texts call our existing structures of knowledge into question and require us to formulate new structures. In literary reading, reader response emotions play an essential role to make the new meaning structures. And they can be categorized into several types such as the artefact emotions, the narrative emotions and the aesthetic emotions. When these emotions have a power to make the readers be more conscious of themselves and transform their beings, they are called to be the self-transformative emotions. The semiotic devices of literary texts, the generation and the elaboration of reader response emotions, the awareness and the transformation of selves are the characteristic components of literary reading. To make fully use of the potentials of the literary reading in our practical lives such as education and psychotherapy, we need to be more supported by the results of empirical researches to the reader response emotions.