Showing papers in "Poetics in 1996"

TL;DR: The authors examined the manner in which arts participation is embedded in larger systems of meaning by investigating the associations between one kind of artistic participation (art-museum visiting) and individuals' responses to ninety-four questions about their social, cultural, and political values and attitudes.

TL;DR: The authors used the culture module of the 1993 General Social Survey to assess the determinants of moral and cultural boundaries in the American population, finding that structural position -education, income, class, and gender - affects the likelihood that individuals draw one type of boundary rather than another, and geographic location and participation in lifestyle clusters play an important role in supplying cultural repertoires that affect the drawing of boundaries.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of socioeconomic, demographic, and geographic factors on visits or non-visits to four different types of museums: science and technology museums, natural history and natural science museums, history museums, and art museums.

TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative analysis was performed on Dutch authors' data derived from a survey of the critical reception of eighteen writers of fiction who made their debut around 1975 by means of discrete-time event history models.

TL;DR: The results reveal that subjects are sensitive to the manipulations of graphic and phonetic information and use the same additive information integration rule in making poetic text categorization judgements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore members' perceptions about museum membership and relate these to the usage frequency of two important membership benefits: free admission and special events invitations, and find that benefit usage was more frequent for members who viewed membership as a source of high prestige and who tended to participate in other ‘highbrow’ art forms.

TL;DR: This article used data from the 1992 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts to show that arts instruction provided solely through the school has a significant positive effect on adult participation in high status arts, independent of measures of family background.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present two identically constructed experimental studies testing hypotheses about effects of narrative distance on readers' feelings of involvement, appreciation, and perception of story characters' emotional states.

TL;DR: This article found that experts and novices exhibited distinct patterns of response across the three story types providing preliminary support for the interpretive community theory, and compared with current findings in cognitive psychology concerning expert/novice differences in non-literary domains.

TL;DR: Visitors to art museums vary on a number of a dimensions related to how they construct their museum experience as mentioned in this paper, and the visiting preferences and intentions of a sample of visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art were examined by having them respond to a survey as they entered the Museum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that both museums and museum exhibitions change as museums become increasingly supported by institutional funders rather than individual philanthropists, and that such changes have led to increased conflict within museums.

TL;DR: The authors found that students were more likely to accept supernatural events as ordinary in the context of the story, in keeping with the instructional curriculum, and were less likely to dismiss events and existents as mere symbols or metaphors.

TL;DR: The authors proposed a model of how the narrator's location is constrained by dialogue style and how the assigned location affects the evaluation of the characters and the perceived attributes of the narrator in the story "Rope" by Katherine Ann Porter.

TL;DR: The authors used unresolved contradiction to specify attitudes in metaphor, irony, understatement and tautology, and they concluded that contradictions implied at the surface level of a trope need not always be resolved for the trope to be properly understood.

TL;DR: In this paper, a corpus of 1000 lines of poetry (ten 100-line samples from ten different authors) is analyzed by a computerized connectionist model of poetic meter and the analysis finds that poets utilize measurably distinct patterns of stress and suggests that these patterns might "fingerprint" individual writers.

TL;DR: The authors assess and compare two attribution theories, both of which are designed to explain how we infer aspects of personality in real life situations, and highlight the apparent mutual incompatibility of these theories.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a rationale for the psychological study of literary expertise as a research strategy for investigating some of the conventions and expectations of the literary system, by presenting a comparison with expert-novice research in cognitive science.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a number of experiential variables and assesses their effects on patterns of attendance and selections of those who are already museum visitors at a Dutch provincial museum with an archeological and an art collection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the process of the general public's access in Russia to the avant-garde art of the 20th century, based on sociological surveys of the audiences at the first exhibitions of art which was previously banned from official Soviet art history.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the analysis of perspectival ambiguities can be grounded in a cognitive-linguistic approach to mental space representations or embedded domains and that readers may arrive at different possible domain structures as a representation of the narrative.