Anna Chesnokova

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• Ph.D.
• Professor at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University

In the Humanities, particularly in literature education, students' responses to literary texts tend to be taken for granted. It is assumed that their ability to read and account for the reading experience does not require pedagogical intervention. Not only this is not a given, but any method or strategy used should be followed by evidence-based ass...

Poetry originates in social orality: music and voice are fundamental for the way it functions. Important are both the emotional ingredients in poetry as an experience (van Peer and Chesnokova, Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics, London, Bloomsbury, 2022) and the oral and social nature of its delivery. Reading a poem means first and f...

How do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects? Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. E...

In recent years, researchers have conducted empirical studies in reader response, which have either contested or confirmed earlier theories. Indeed, the 1970s and 1980s saw the shift from interpreting the page to looking into reading processes, but the studies remained on the level of abstraction. Our study follows the trend towards evidence-ground...

This chapter examines how Ukrainian EFL students respond to a canonical piece of poetry – in a conventional academic setting or online. Five groups (135 participants) read Dickinson’s “A slash of Blue” (1961, p. 95) and reported their response to the verse. Groups 1–3 read the poem during their classes, whereas Group 4 did it as a Facebook survey....

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” (Todd, 315). There is hardly a person in the world familiar with works by Emily Dickinson who has never hear...

Now that empirical research methods are getting their due recognition in the spheres of literature and other media, and that the field of stylistics has also greatly developed, this volume, published within John Benjamins’ well-established Linguistic Approaches to Literature series, is really welcome. The tradition has been to see stylistics as an...

To this point few empirical studies have examined the reactions of students when translated poems are used in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) literature classrooms. In a previous study (see Chesnokova et al., 2017), we noticed that opting for translations comes with a price, and reactions will vary. In this chapter, we offer a detailed line-by-...

This famous quote from Winnie-the-Pooh reveals something fundamental about the role love stories play in the lives of people. That they do, is beyond doubt, as the theme of love pervades all of literature. And this interest in the topic of love has not waned. Publishing love stories is a multi-billion business. Apparently humans are not content wit...

Love comes in many forms, as we all know and as the quote from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy holds. Some forms are more frequent than others. As a consequence, less frequent forms may be either tolerated or dismissed as deviant, and therefore socially sanctioned. And different cultures may deal with such forms very differently. In this chapter we look a...

In this chapter we provide an answer to the question why this particular poem, “I Loved you” by Pushkin, has become so famous. It doubtlessly belongs to the canon of literary love poems in the Russian language. But why? Its fame seems to be in flagrant contradiction with its simplicity. Indeed, many readers may not perceive anything particularly “l...

Historically, literary research has prioritized hermeneutic interpretations over empirical approaches. Despite a few efforts to examine real readers’ emotional responses (e.g., Fialho, Miall, and Zyngier 2012; Zhang and Lauer 2015; Hakemulder et al. 2016; Miall and Chard 2016), investigations in the area of literary education have privileged theore...

The authors offer an overview of the theory of foregrounding from its origin in the philosophy of Aristotleand later development in the works of the Russian Formalists and then the Prague Structuralists. The focusis made on the benefts of Empirical Study of Literature that enables researchers to apply a more rigorousand accountable methodology in in...

The general feeling of malaise, if not crisis, in Literary Studies forces us to urgently look for solutions that will bring the discipline forward. This article is a call for a concentration on fundamental issues in the study of literature, and at the same time for a more rigorous and accountable methodology in studying both the content and the for...

This paper compares translations of the same poem (Poe’s “The Lake”) into three different languages (Portuguese, Ukrainian and Russian) to check whether the solutions acknowledged translators found may actually lead readers from two different cultural settings, in this case Brazil and Ukraine, to a range of reactions. The results indicate that eac...

In this paper, we argue that the long-term evaluation of literary texts rather privileges their formal and structural aspects, but to a lesser degree the content. As external and internal reasons for literary evaluation are distinguished, the latter are privileged while the former will only last as the themes and the external reasons remain, which...

Following the introduction of the ideas of Russian Formalists and Prague Structuralists, the foregrounding theory appeared as a new paradigm, based on linguistic models that claimed to provide insight into poetic technique and gain a grasp of the effects generated by this technique in the readers. Thus the article focuses on the analysis of stylist...

[straipsnis ir santrauka anglų kalba, santrauka lietuvių kalba] Straipsnis skirtas sinestetinės slinkties, kuri įvyksta verčiant Emily Dickinson poeziją iš anglų kalbos į ukrainiečių ir rusų kalbas, analizei. Autorės remiasi I.A.Redkos (2009) poetinės sinestezijos samprata: sinestezija – tai tropas, pagrįstas daiktų ir (arba) reiškinių gretinimu....

In the past, several studies have found empirical support for the psychological notion of foregrounding. In this article we will present the results of a series of reading experiments investigating descriptive and evaluative reader reactions to poems, both in their original form (containing rather heavy foregrounding, both deviation and parallelism...

In this contribution, we argue that the educational quality of the Humanities will be greatly enhanced if students carry out their own research. We refer to a ten-year project between our three universities and report the empirical feedback from survey of 53 participants. It indicates that the skills acquired considerably influenced their future in...

This article will investigate the extent to which predictions of Terror Management Theory also hold on reading literature. Indeed, death is ubiquitous in fiction. But does reading about it cause the same reactions as those predicted by Terror Management Theory? To answer this question, five reading experiments were carried out. The hypothesis, deve...

Статтю присвячено виявленню лінгвостилістичних особливостей створення ефекту висунення у поетичних текстах американського поета, есеїста, сценариста і художника Едварда Естліна Каммінгса. У своїх творах, які давно привертають увагу дослідників-лінгвістів, автор майстерно використав різні види висунення і у такий спосіб став відомий саме завдяки сво...

It is common practice in academic research projects to present final assessment by means of reporting and evaluating results. More often than not, these reports tend to focus on the quantity and quality of the knowledge acquired, and very little (if any) attention is given to the impact the research may have had on the researchers themselves. In an...

This paper presents a concrete illustration of the methods that Marion Behrens highlighted in her talk. It will concentrate on the way in which very simple manipulations of literary texts can provide enlightening insights into the nature of literary perception and evaluation. The issue at hand is the current security situation, and the behavior it...

About half a century ago, a little revolution in literary studies took place. Following the ideas of the Russian Formalists and Prague tructuralists, a more rigorous approach to the study of literary texts was proposed. One of the major discussions turned around e.e. cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, especially about the heavy foregrou...

The term ‘empathy’ is associated with positive values in western cultures: it is generally thought good if people feel empathetic, and children are standardly brought up to take feelings of other people into consideration. But what if empathy is distressful? Literary authors are often quite adept at describing situations or events which may evoke e...

About half a century ago, a little revolution took place in the study of literature. Following the introduction of the ideas of the Russian Formalists and Prague Structuralists in the West during the late 1960s, a more rigorous approach to the study of literary texts was proposed, initially against fierce resistance from literary criticism. One o...

Today, in the age of global mobility and rapid technological development, we are exposed to all sorts of information, and the way we get it varies significantly. Students of the Humanities, dealing with literature on a daily basis, spend hours on the Internet, browsing different websites and communicating in social networks – the fact that is likel...

Verbalization of complex senses and feelings may take various forms. Among them, there is a multifaceted phenomenon of synaesthesia (Day 1996; Tsur 2007), which has long been looked at in psychology (Shiffman 2003; Cytowic 2002; Cytowic and Eagleman 2009), philosophy (Gritsanov 2003), semio-aesthetics (Parret 2006) and linguistics (Redka 2009), but...

The times of restricting reading to just sitting with a book in a cozy armchair are gone. If you ask a modern teenager or university student how they would prefer to do it, the chances are fairly high that the answer you’ll get is a computer screen or an iPad. Digital technologies have become an ordinary tool for everybody dealing with literature,...

The article reports a study in line with the tenets of empirical methodology in addressing research questions. The project tests how real respondents in Ukraine, both university students are professionals, view the job of a translator / interpreter. The results indicate that there is a significant difference between the responses of the two test g...

У статті пропонується огляд принципів застосування у сучасній лінгвістичній парадигмі емпіричних методів дослідження – доволі нової для мовознавства методології, яка закорінена у суспільні науки, утім наразі широко використовується у лінгвістиці й літературознавстві. Такий підхід, за багатьох причин, демонструє переваги у порівнянні із більш традиц...

This chapter aims at describing the networks within the Research and Development in Empirical Studies (REDES) Project, an intercultural enterprise aimed at promoting empirical studies of culture. Probably the first and only international project in the Humanities which prepares new researchers through online communication, the experience is believe...

This chapter focuses on how doing empirical research can lead to insights in the way in which literary texts generate meaning and aesthetic value. The focus is firmly on techniques for carrying out small-scale, manageable projects of an empirical nature, suitable for undergraduate students to carry out. The chapter suggests that a key way for stude...

This chapter discusses the benefits of using Stylistics to teach literature and language to non-native speakers of English. It argues that the analytical precision offered by Stylistics is useful for learners of English who often have a better grasp of structural elements of language than native English speakers. Consequently, Stylistics can be a u...

The book aims at introducing the Ukrainian readers to the potential of using empirical methodology in literary and language studies. Real-life examples of research as well as step-by-step guidelines are used to demonstrate the way the approach may be applied.

Sometimes one book is enough to change the whole way of thinking or general attitude of students, and this is the case with Muses and Measures: Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities. Now that empirical research methods are getting their due recognition in the spheres of Literature, Arts, and other media, the volume is really welcome. It is...

This guide is designed as a practical resource. In the twenty-first century, we write much more than our parents did in the twentieth. We send emails, SMS’s, join blogs, forums and chat-rooms on the Internet. When we apply for a position, the first impression on the potential employer is made by our CV, not by the way we talk or behave. All this gi...

Literary scholarship has traditionally relied on interpretative studies. Grounded on the theoretical bases of the Empirical Study of Literature, this paper moves away from such tradition by following the tenets of an empirical perspective. Its purpose is to report on the design of a questionnaire and how semantic differentials were created so as to...

This study aims at comparing the reception of university students from different cultures to a poem in their native language and in English. Four hundred Ukrainians and Brazilians were asked to respond to Poe’s “Annabel Lee” in both languages and evaluate their reaction by means of semantic differential scales. The results indicate that literary re...

This chapter aims at describing the networks within the Research and Development in Empirical Studies (REDES) Project, an intercultural enterprise aimed at promoting empirical studies of culture. Probably the first and only international project in the Humanities which prepares new researchers through online communication, the experience is believe...

The chapter examines the impact of Russification and Ukrainization policies on the attitude of Ukrainians towards foreign (English) language learning. The hypothesis is that people who had a negative experience with instruction in their non-native language are likely to experience the same reaction when learning another foreign language. To test th...

The presentation examines the impact of language policies on the attitude of Ukrainians towards foreign (English) language learning. The hypothesis is that people who had a negative experience with instruction in their non-native language are likely to experience the same reaction when learning another foreign language. Results indicate that there...

Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology, psychology, linguistics and literature, all focusing on h...

This fine collection of papers is the successful outcome of an international research project carried out by advanced undergraduate and graduate students from four different countries. Exceptionally, the papers do not rehash old ideas or themes but offer a fresh approach to a wide range of topics from language, literature and culture. This innovati...

The article focuses on the major theoretical and practical results of developing the concept of Literary Awareness in two countries, namely, Brazil and Ukraine. Introduced by S. Zyngier in 1994 as a methodology by means of which readers become sensitized to the verbal artistry of imaginative texts and their role in human life, LitAw enjoyed over te...

The study aims to investigate the impact of Emily Dickinson's love poetry on certain cultural beliefs in Ukraine and Brazil. Our initial hypothesis was that Humanities' students ARE influenced by poetry, as they are constantly exposed to written texts. Nevertheless we anticipated that cultural stereotypes would be stronger than the force of identif...

The research, carried out among Humanities students from Brazil and Ukraine, observed their attitudes to intimate relationships involving a considerable age difference between partners as well as investigated if respondents’ views were influenced by samples of literary passages focusing on age gap relationships. As the project was carried out in th...

Мета дослідження - на підставі аналізу ліричних творів, листів, теоретичних праць прослідкувати, як аналогічні чи різні явища в естетиці, поетиці, культурі українського й американського народів відображаються у творчості поетес і який вплив на це мають суто індивідуальні особливості внутрішнього світу кожної з них. Для досягнення такої мети постає...