Willie van Peer
Willie van Peer holds a Ph.D. from Lancaster University, and is Professor of
Literary Studies and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Munich, former
President of IGEL (International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature
and Media) and of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association). He has been Visiting
Scholar in the Departments of Comparative Literature at Stanford and at Princeton
University, and in the Department of (Cognitive) Psychology at the University of
Memphis. He is also a Fellow of Clare Hall of Cambridge University. He is the author
of several books and many articles on poetics and the epistemological foundations of
literary studies, including Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding
(London, 1986). He edited The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language,
Literature and Culture (Routledge, 1988), together with Seymour Chatman, New
Perspectives on Narrative Perspective (SUNY Press, 2001), and together with Max
Louwerse, Thematics. Interdisciplinary Studies (Benjamins, 2002).
Publications
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Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier, Vander Viana.
© 2010. 254 pages.
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