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Direct linkMcCarthy, Kathryn S.; Goldman, Susan R. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
An important purpose of reading literature is to move beyond the literal text to construct an interpretation of what the text conveys about the human condition and nature of the world. In two experiments, college students with no prior training in literary analysis read a short story and responded to one of four task instructions (plot, ambiguous,…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Story Reading, College Students, Literary Criticism
