LITERARY TEXTS AND HAPPINESS: A POSSIBLE RELATION? AN STUDY ON FOREGROUNDING AND FLOW

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  • Juliana Jandre Barreto
  • Olívia da Costa Fialho

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foregrounding, flow, literary texts, happiness, readers

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This study aims at investigating the positive feelings one may feel while reading a literary text. The theory of flow (Csiksentmihalyi, 1989; 1990) is used to this purpose, as well as texts in different levels of foregrounding. This study measures the affect students have while reading literary texts.

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