Willie van Peer
Belgian Literary Scholar
Willie van Peer's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Download Badge
Literature
Willie van Peer's Degrees
- PhD Literary Studies University of Antwerp
- Masters English Literature University of Antwerp
- Bachelors English Literature University of Antwerp
Why Is Willie van Peer Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Willie van Peer is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Languages and Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He is a linguist, literary scholar, and one of the founders of the empirical study of literature. Van Peer has published extensively in his main areas of research: foregrounding, narratology, literary evaluation, literary theory, emotion in literature and intimate relations in literature. Van Peer was Vice President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics , Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association and President of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature . He was editor of the series Linguistic Approaches to Literature and founding editor of Scientific Study of Literature . Directions in Empirical Literary Studies was published in his honour in 2008.
Willie van Peer's Published Works
Published Works
- Stylistics and psychology : investigations of foregrounding (1986) (155)
- New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective (2001) (93)
- Scientific Methods for the Humanities (2012) (78)
- Ramachandran, V. S. (2011) The tell-tale brain: A neuroscientist’s quest for what makes us human (2013) (57)
- Thematics : interdisciplinary studies (2002) (56)
- Introduction to foregrounding: a state of the art: (2007) (41)
- The measurement of metre (1990) (39)
- Quantitative studies of literature. A critique and an outlook (1989) (36)
- The Taming of the Text : Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture (1989) (36)
- Complexity and Foregrounding: In the Eye of the Beholder? (2007) (31)
- The quality of literature : linguistic studies in literary evaluation (2008) (23)
- Literary socialization in the family: A state of the art (1991) (19)
- How cognitive is cognitive poetics? The interaction between symbolic and embodied cognition (2009) (12)
- CANON FORMATION: IDEOLOGY OR AESTHETIC QUALITY? (1996) (12)
- Automatic analyses of language, discourse, and situation models (2008) (10)
- Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future (2007) (10)
- The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary studies in a changing world (1996) (9)
- Literature, Imagination, and Human Rights (1995) (9)
- Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies. (2010) (8)
- Budding researchers in the Humanities:An intercultural online project (2009) (7)
- Sense and Nonsense of Chaos Theory in Literary Studies (1998) (6)
- READING AND REREADING: INSIGHTS INTO LITERARY EVALUATION (2018) (6)
- THE HISTORICAL NON-TRIVIALITY OF ART: A REJOINDER TO JEROME STOLNITZ (1995) (6)
- Top-Down and Bottom-Up : Interpretative Strategies in Reading E.-E. Cummings in On Poetry. (1987) (6)
- Chapter 3. Research methodology and design (2012) (6)
- THE ETHICS OF LITERATURE: TWO MODELS (1996) (5)
- New Beginnings in Literary Studies (2008) (5)
- The stylistic theory of foregrounding : a theoretical and empirical investigation. (1980) (4)
- Between the lines: Spatial language and its developmental representation in Stephen King’sIT (2002) (4)
- Anyone Came to Live Here Some Time Ago: A Cognitive Semiotics Approach to Deviation as a Foregrounding Device (2016) (4)
- POETIC STYLE AND READER RESPONSE: AN EXERCISE IN EMPIRICAL SEMICS (1983) (4)
- (In)compatible Interpretations? Contesting Readings of The Turn of the Screw (1995) (4)
- Pragmatics and stylistics (1984) (4)
- Multilated Signs: Notes toward a Literary Paleography (1997) (4)
- Review Article: Towards a new narratology: an extended review of Psychonarratology (2007) (3)
- How cognitive is cognitive poetics ? Adding a symbolic approach to the embodied one (2007) (3)
- Does Reading Literature Make People Happy? (2019) (3)
- Distressful Empathy in Reading Literature: the Case for Terror Management Theory? (2017) (3)
- Paraphrase as paradox in literary education (1993) (3)
- The concept of cohesion (1989) (3)
- Learning Without Teaching: Literature and the REDES Project (2011) (3)
- What literature does to our emotions, and how do we know? Empirical studies will tell (2019) (2)
- But what is literature? Toward a descriptive definition of literature (2020) (2)
- “High”/“Low” Cultural Products and Their Social Functions (1997) (2)
- The Multidimensionality of Art (2009) (2)
- 13. Where do literary themes come from (2002) (2)
- The concept of cohesion: Its empirical status in a definition and typology of texts (1989) (2)
- What Reading Does to Readers: Stereotypes, Foregrounding and Language Learning (2007) (2)
- On fact making in empirical studies of literature (1997) (1)
- Chapter 4. Methods of data collection (2012) (1)
- Scientific Methods for Stylistics (2015) (1)
- Chapter 1. A new beginning (2012) (1)
- FOREGROUNDING THEORY: AN OLD MODEL FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE (2019) (1)
- On the origins of style (2002) (1)
- Hogan, P. C. (2003) The mind and its stories. Narrative universal and human emotion Hogan, P. C. (2011) What literature teaches us about emotion Hogan, P. C. (2011) Affective narratology. The emotional structure of stories (2013) (1)
- Article: Truth Matters: A Critical Exercise in Revisionism (1998) (1)
- LONG-TERM RESEARCH ASSESSING IN THE HUMANITIES: A CASE STUDY (2016) (1)
- “There Are as Many Kinds of Love as There Are Hearts”: Age-Gap Relationships in Literature and Cultural Attitudes (2021) (1)
- Learning through Research: Invigorating the Humanities (2017) (1)
- List of Figures, Tables and Graphs (2012) (0)
- Emotional functions of reading literature (1994) (0)
- Literariness Revisited: Deviation vs. Entrenched Ideas (2016) (0)
- Chapter 7. How to enter and manipulate data in SPSS (2012) (0)
- General Conclusions and Outlook (2021) (0)
- Literature as Mortality Salience (2015) (0)
- The Theory of Foregrounding: The State of the Art (2021) (0)
- Chapter 6. Experiment (2012) (0)
- Design of Validation Procedures (2021) (0)
- Powers of narration . Literary theory (1995) (0)
- Critical Analysis of Fiction: Essays in Discourse Stylistics (1993) (0)
- In memoriam Colin Martindale (2009) (0)
- Chapter 5. How to construct a questionnaire (2012) (0)
- Analyses of the Poems and Predictions Made (2021) (0)
- Oral Reading Practice (1989) (0)
- Interlude. Some misconceptions about scientific and empirical research of culture (2012) (0)
- The ‘not-me in thee’: Crossing Boundaries Through Literature (2007) (0)
- Distressful Empathy: The Case for Terror Management Theory? (2015) (0)
- Psychonarratology Review Article: Towards a new narratology: an extended review of (2007) (0)
- An Institutional Constraint on the Development of Functional Literacy (1989) (0)
- Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (review) (1996) (0)
- Incorporated means symbolic and embodied (2007) (0)
- “How Do You Spell Love?”—“You Don’t Spell It. You Feel It.” (2021) (0)
- Chapter 12. Communicating results (2012) (0)
- Further Refinements: Design of Inductive Procedures (2021) (0)
- Foregrounding in Text and Reader Response (2021) (0)
- Chapter 10. Inference statistics (2012) (0)
- Chapter 2. Basic insights from the philosophy of science (2012) (0)
- The Validity of Foregrounding (2021) (0)
- Truth Matters: A Critical Exercise in Revisionism (2017) (0)
- Cries and whispers about multiculturalism: Some theoretical and methodological considerations (2000) (0)
- Book Review: Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts (2000) (0)
- Experiencing Poetry (2022) (0)
- BECKETT'S "FIRST LOVE" AND CYNICAL PHILOSOPHY (1998) (0)
- Chapter 8. Descriptive statistics (2012) (0)
- Psychoanalysts and daydreaming (2001) (0)
- Reading, culture and modern mass media (1988) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Willie van Peer
What Schools Are Affiliated With Willie van Peer?
Willie van Peer is affiliated with the following schools: