David S. Miall

TL;DR: This paper found that foregrounded segments of the story were associated with increased reading times, greater strikingness ratings, and greater affect ratings, while response to foregrounding appeared to be independent of literary competence or experience.

TL;DR: The authors argue that aesthetic and narrative feelings interact to produce metaphors of personal identification that modify self-understanding, and argue that the concept of catharsis (the conflict of tragic feelings identified byAristotle) identifies one particular form of a more general pattern in which aesthetic and narratives feelings evoked during reading interact to modify the reader.

TL;DR: This article examined two forms of self-implication in literary reading: simile and metaphor, and found that simile is more similar to the way a reader identifies with a part of the world of the text, usually the narrator or a character.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed readers' responses to several literary texts (short stories and poems) indicating processes beyond the explanatory reach of current situation models, and suggested a three-component model of literariness involving foregrounded stylistic or narrative features, readers' defamiliarizing responses to them, and the consequent modification of personal meanings.