Author Representations in Literary Reading -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Theoretical positions towards the author concept -- 1.1 Death of the Author -- 1.1.1 "La mort de l'auteur" -- 1.1.2 Intentional Fallacy -- 1.1.3 Narrator vs. Author -- 1.1.4 Implied Author -- 1.2 Resurrection of the Author -- 1.2.1 Feminist and postcolonial approaches -- 1.2.2 False identities -- 1.2.3 Profession: writer and personality -- 1.3 Reception aesthetics -- 1.4 Discourse theory -- 1.4.1 Author intent and attitude -- 1.4.2 Literary comprehension -- 1.5 Empirical research in authorial representation -- 1.5.1 Reading satirical stories -- 1.5.2 Understanding metaphors -- 1.5.3 Reading strategies -- 1.5.4 Reading in an educational context -- 1.6 Taking position -- 1.6.1 Motivation -- 1.6.2 Aims and objectives -- 1.6.3 Terminology -- 1.6.4 Assumptions -- 2. Author inferences in thinking aloud -- 2.1 Methodological considerations on the think-aloud method -- 2.2 An exploratory study: inference categories -- 2.2.1 Method -- 2.2.2 A first impression -- 2.3 Protocol analysis -- 2.3.1 Transcribing and segmenting -- 2.3.2 Defining inference categories and setting up a coding scheme -- 2.3.3 Coding protocols: procedures and intercoder reliability -- 2.4 Protocol analysis and post-reading tasks -- 2.4.1 Results of protocol analysis -- 2.4.2 Factors instruction, text and reader expertise -- 2.4.3 Results of post-reading tasks -- 2.5 Discussion -- 2.5.1 Reader-generated author inferences -- 2.5.2 Effects of factors on inference generation -- 2.5.3 Conceptual and methodological implications -- 3. Reading as joint pretence -- 3.1 Theoretical considerations on the reading of fiction -- 3.1.1 Speech act theories -- 3.1.2 "It takes two to tango": fiction as joint action.

3.1.3 Limitations of the game of make-believe -- 3.2 Selection of materials: a pilot study -- 3.2.1 Method -- 3.2.2 Results and implications -- 3.3 Effects of text manipulation on author inferences reports (Experiment 1) -- 3.3.1 Method -- 3.4 Results -- 3.4.1 A first impression -- 3.4.2 Manipulation check of text stimulus -- 3.4.3 Readers and default assumptions about the implied author -- 3.4.4 The implied author's intentions, identity and moral position -- 3.4.5 "Immoral" text segments -- 3.5 Discussion -- 4. On-line measurement of author inferences through affective priming I -- 4.1 Affective priming paradigm -- 4.1.1 Two studies -- 4.1.2 Underlying mechanisms -- 4.1.3 Possibilities and limitations -- 4.2 Three pilot studies -- 4.2.1 Selection of text primes -- 4.2.2 Pilot study I: Results and conclusion -- 4.2.3 Selection of targets -- 4.2.4 Pilot Study II: Results and conclusion -- 4.2.5 Selection of author prime -- 4.2.6 Pilot Study III: Results and conclusion -- 4.3 Effects of author information on the generation of author inferences (Experiment 2) -- 4.3.1 Method -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Manipulation check of author prime -- 4.4.2 Affective priming effects and reading times -- 4.4.3 Post-reading measurements -- 4.5 Discussion -- 5. On-line measurement of author inferences through affective priming II -- 5.1 Effects of detailed author information on the generation of author inferences (Experiment 3) -- 5.1.1 Method -- 5.2 Results -- 5.2.1 Manipulation check of primes and targets -- 5.2.2 Affective priming effects and reading times -- 5.2.3 Post-reading measurements -- 5.3 Discussion -- 6. Looking back and forward -- 6.1 Theoretical and methodological implications -- 6.1.1 Generating author inferences -- 6.1.2 Reading fiction as joint pretence -- 6.1.3 Effects of contextual information -- 6.1.4 Effects of more detailed contextual information.

6.2 Implications for literary studies and discourse theory -- 6.2.1 Literary studies -- 6.2.2 Literary criticism and reviewing -- 6.2.3 Five possible author constructions: an example -- 6.2.4 The fictional aspect of literary texts -- 6.2.5 Discourse theory -- 6.3 After death and resurrection, what next? -- 6.3.1 Reader characteristics in constructing author representations -- 6.3.2 Narrator visibility and foregrounding -- 6.3.3 Methodological difficulties and challenges -- 6.3.4 Author constructions in other art forms -- References -- Appendices -- Index.