TY  - CHAP
U1  - Teil eines Buches
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
A1  - Blohm, Stefan
ED  - Nadal, Marcos
ED  - Vartanian, Oshin
T1  - Empirical aesthetics of poetry
T2  - The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
N2  - Poetry enjoys greater liberties (“poetic license”) than all other uses of language to depart from a variety of grammatical and discourse-semantic constraints that typically shape verbal messages. At the same time, poetry frequently conforms to additional formal constraints on the selection and combination of linguistic elements, e.g., meter, rhyme, and other types of parallelism. Surveying empirical research into the cognitive, stylistic, and aesthetic effects of parallelistic features and poetic license, we argue that both types of deviation affect processing fluency in distinct ways and on distinct levels of processing. Poetic license renders verse cognitively more challenging, i.e., harder to comprehend and more ambiguous, but also more “poetic.” Parallelistic diction, by contrast, increases predictability and perceptual processing fluency; it underlies the rhythmical and melodic properties that link poetry and music. Sound parallelism has further been shown to enhance the memorability of verse, and to render humoristic verse more humorous and emotionally moving poems more moving, beautiful, melodic, and vivid, but also richer in meaning. We further survey investigations of the sound-iconic properties of verse, semantic figures (most notably, poetic metaphor), and mood representation, as well as of readers’ dispositions favoring poetry reading. We conclude by identifying directions for future research.
KW  - Poetic license
KW  - parallelism
KW  - processing fluency
KW  - beauty
KW  - metaphor
KW  - sound-iconicity
KW  - mood representation
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Metrum
KW  - Vers
KW  - Parallelismus
KW  - Reim
KW  - Phonologie
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125832
SN  - 9780191863172
SB  - 9780191863172
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824350.013.33
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824350.013.33
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen online nicht frei zugänglich.
SP  - 704
EP  - 720
PB  - Oxford University
CY  - Oxford
ER  -