Qualitative Literary and Media Interaction Research

Qualitative social and interactional research ==>

Reconstructive, qualitative analysis of readers’ response

The reconstructive analysis of the mental processes of aesthetic interaction experience does not primarily deal with the texts/ "works" themselves but with the individuals who interact with them, i.e. with persons. This research's object matter is inner-psychic processes and imaginary inter-actional scenes. First of all it deals with the mental "dialogue" which unfolds between the "works" and their readers as well as with the "conversation" and "confrontation" among those readers. This reader response research is supplemented by research on authors and on the mental processes of creative writing.

This sector of Literary and Media Interaction Research (LIR) employs and further develops methods of qualitative social and media studies, above all tools of narrative interviewing (for instance the novel method of the 'reading and media experience interview') which are analysed using standard procedures of narrational analysis as well as psychological resources.
[Der Mensch – ein Homo Narrator (2006e), Erzähltheorie als Möglichkeit (2006l), Towards a new interdisciplinarity (2008s)]

The second dimension of Literary and Media Interaction Research is covered by the empirical case studies of my EU projects – the current project "Narrative media interaction and psycho-trauma therapy" and the up-coming project "Media/Anti-Violence" which has been approved by the EU for the time period of 2009 to 2011: These projects pursue both basic and applied research on literary and media interaction and thus investigate the "dialogue with the works" as well as "the conversation with those who equally strive to comprehend the works"
[Current EU-Project Abstract, Granted EU-Projekt Abstract, Narratologische Textanalyse]