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The IGEL conference 1987: Aspects of the empirical study of art and media.
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Siegfried J. Schmidt, 1989, 7:2, 93-98.
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Motivations, epistemological considerations, concepts of literature, and aims of research in the empirical study of literature in the United States and Germany.
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Elrud Ibsch, 1989, 7:2, 99-114.
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Assuming that at present the hermeneutic and the empirical paradigm in literary studies are dominant and competing perspectives of research, two questions arise: 1) are the empirical programs of the American and the European (especially German) tradition compatible? To answer this question it appears necessary to look carefully at the motivation, the epistemological foundation, the concept of literature and the aims of research in both traditions. One of the results of the inquiry is that the demarcation line which separates hermeneutic and empirical research is less pronounced in the American tradition. 2) The question is discussed whether "Radical Constructivism" as discussed by S. J. Schmidt and E. von Glasersfeld is a unifying epistemological concept that can take away not only the differences between the empirical programs of Schmidt and Bleich but also the schism between hermeneutics and empiricism.
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The empirical study of literature. How empirical can it be?
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Dieter Freundlieb, 1989, 7:2, 115-130.
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This article addresses some of the problems of an empirical study of literature resulting from the fact that it cannot, qua empirical science, engage in the evaluation of literary texts and the moral issues those texts exemplify as well as the further fact (if it is a fact) that statements about textual meanings in the context of literary interpretations are not empirically true or false. Traditional interpretive literary criticism has always played a significant part in the reproduction and modification of culture. From this point of view, an empirical science of literature must appear severely limited. However, it can be argued that such an empirical study of literature can show that interpretation is necessarily a constructive process and therefore always, to a large extent, determined by (often ideological) background assumptions. An empirical study of literature would make interpretation one of its objects of study and explanation. Such investigations would further our understanding of processes of text comprehension in general, but it would also allow us to reconstruct the background assumptions guiding traditional interpretations.
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Fundamental demands on the construction of a theoretical object of strictly scientific empirical studies of literature.
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Edmund Nierlich, 1989, 7:2, 131-144.
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When we start out from the assumption that theories can never adequately represent an unknowable realm of stimulators of our senses, this implies the construction even of the objects themselves of scientific empirical theories, which is here taken to be wholly dependent on practically relevant explanatory purposes for the advancement of practical capacities only. This also means that explanatory empirical theories alone can be scientific empirical theories in a strict sense, whereas descriptive empirical theories, as implying the assumption of some fundamental substance-construct, may only be justified within science in so far as they fulfill an adequate service function of some required data acquisition. This article, being also based on the constructivist point of view that there is no independent object of knowledge at all, consists for a large part in a sketch of a sequence of object-constructs as resulting from different and successively more effective ways of making attempts at survival in the evolution of mankind and the development of its social practice. The object-construct of scientific empirical explanatory theories as the latest of them is here conceived as empirical practical quasi-action with the function of enabling new know-that for the improvement of practical capacities in various fields of our highly specified practice. As special kinds of empirical practical quasi-actions for a future fruitful construction of objects of scientific empirical explanatory theories are here proposed: process (in a narrow sense), origination of meaning, and origination of a practical action. It must be understood as a "political" decision when the author intends to develop an object-theory of scientific empirical studies of literature as that of originations of a kind of communicative cooperative practical actions.
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Towards the constructivist science of literature (A new paradigm?).
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Ferenc Odorics, 1989, 7:2, 145-161.
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This article proposes that the conception in literary theory now known under the name of Empirical Science of Literature should take up the name: Constructivist Science of Literature. The reason for this is, that the use of the term "empirical" diminishes the chances of the school to become a paradigm, because 1) according to the ontological use of "empirical" the Empirical Science of Literature is not an empirical science; 2) the (epistemological) use of the term "empirical" by the Empirical Science of Literature is irreconcilable with its (ontological) use by the potential legitimatizing community; and 3) the significance of the Empirical Science of Literature does not spring from its empirism, but from its constructivism.
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How to recognize an "interpretive community" when you see one.
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Gunnar Hansson, 1989, 7:2, 163-173.
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The article describes some examples of empirical investigations that can be used to "recognize" what Stanley Fish called interpretive communities and to discuss what constitutes identifiable differences between them. The examples fall into three groups, depending upon what kinds of data have been collected and analyzed in the investigations: written protocols describing responses and interpretations; the use of statistical analysis and verbal scales to reach beyond or below the verbalized response; and studies of norms and conventions which are held by or known by a group of readers before a particular response has been formed.
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Film aesthetics and new methods of film analysis.
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Werner Faulstich, 1989, 7:2, 175-190.
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Almost every piece of scientific or critical work which is concerned with the film expresses at the same time opinions both about the nature of film and about the methods of film analysis, in most cases only implicitly. In contrast to such implicit statements, I will try here to make these theoretical and methodological positions explicit and demonstrate them with examples. First of all, I should like to refresh our memory about the basic theoretical premises of what I call "film aesthetics" (a concept which was presented in 1982 at great length). Then we have to name the rather more practical prerequisites essential to any serious film analysis. Third, we should concentrate on new methods of film analysis paying special attention to quantitative analysis. It would hardly be possible to give a full picture of all the various methods which in the past have been applied to various feature films with various results - many of them are presented and discussed in several introductory books on the analysis of film. The new methods will be described here as suitable for analyzing that part which one could call the narrative structure of a film, i.e., its formal construction and the conceptional ordering of the action (this is more than just story and plot).
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Past: Notes on memory and narration.
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Siegfried J. Schmidt, 1989, 7:2, 191-202.
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Memory is a crucial topic not only for psychology but also for literary studies. The conceptualisation of notions as narration, biography or autobiography immediately depends on how memory and the process of remembering are theoretically modeled. This article presents a short survey on concepts of memory, concentrating on constructivist approaches, and their impact on concepts of time, history, and narration in literary studies.
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