Literarily stimulated emotionality

The LisE project (literarily stimulated emotionality) examines the emotions in dealing with literature as a core element of school-based cultural education and its importance for literary text comprehension. the study examines to what extent emotional experiences during literary reading can be explained in the school context both by assumptions of appraisal theories and by the emotional potential of a text. In addition, it is examined to what extent the understanding of literary texts depends on the interplay between emotional experience and the recognition of intended emotionality. The LisE project also examines the extent to which the development of empathy is caused by reading practice outside of school and the instructional concept of the teacher.