Interpretaciones : experimental criticism and the metrics of Latin American literature / Rudyard J. Alcocer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Playing with the title, or why we admire things we dislike -- In search of an author: or why the famous should run for office and write poetry -- This chapter makes an invaluable contribution to the discipline: on reviews -- Traduttore, traditore? Reader attitudes toward translations -- Based on a true story? Luisa Valenzuela's "Los mejor calzados" -- Warning: this chapter may bite: on literary conclusions -- Hidden rings, or the dance between the general and the specific -- Study survey instruments -- Statistical analyses of data through SPSS.

"Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers' reactions to short texts during crucial moments of the reading experience. These readers are students at universities in the US and several Spanish-speaking countries. Far from reducing the reading experience to a series of numbers, the data-driven approaches in the study instead underline the startling complexity and elusiveness of seemingly basic literary processes and concepts, including those pertaining to authorship, titles, conclusions, and so on. Simultaneously, Interpretaciones suggests alternative methodologies for gaining new and unexpected knowledge about literary texts themselves, whether from Latin America or elsewhere. Interpretaciones is an ambitious, interdisciplinary project geared toward those interested in literary theory, Latin American and Caribbean literature, and the nexus between literature and science"-- Provided by publisher.

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