Willie van Peer

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BornAugust 3, 1947
Sint-Lenaarts, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
CitizenshipBelgium
Alma mater
  • University of Antwerp
  • University of Leuven
Occupation
  • Philologist
  • linguist
  • Literary scholar

Willie van Peer (born Joannes van Peer, August 3, 1947, Sint-Lenaarts, Belgium) is a philologist, linguist and literary scholar.[1]. He is emeritus professor of Literature and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany[2]. Van Peer is one of the founders of a field known as 'Empirical study of literature|the empirical study of literature". His doctoral work (van Peer 1986[3]) initiated an empirical investigation into how literature affects its readers. The field has its own association (IGEL), of which he served as president (2004–2006), organizing the 2006 conference at Chiemsee in Germany [1].

Van Peer's empirical work on foregrounding in literature in the 1980s challenged the reliance on exclusively hermeneutic methods by literary scholars at the time and contributed to the promotion of the empirical study of literature. He was among the key scholars laying out foundations and methods of empirical approach to the study of literary texts, countering some of those assumptions and proposing instead that literature should be studied from an evidence-based perspective[4] .

Education and early career

Van Peer received his Bachelor in Germanic Philology at the University of Antwerp and his Master at the University of Leuven. After teaching English and German to Arab and Berber children in Algeria (1971–1973), he taught in secondary schools and at a teacher training college in Flanders. In 1977, van Peer was awarded a British Council stipend for research in the Linguistics Department at Lancaster University where he worked under Geoffrey Leech and Michael Short|Mick Short. Van Peer's PhD (1980) was the first attempt to empirically validate the concept of foregrounding, originally developed by the Russian formalism|Russian Formalists and Prague linguistic circle|Prague Structuralists. Foregrounding derived from the work of Viktor Shklovsky, who showed how certain forms of words attract attention, and invite readers to see a situation vividly, as if for the first time. Van Peer’s book, Stylistics and Psychology. Investigations of Foregrounding (1986)[5], proposed a systematic, evidence-based and intersubjective approach to the analysis of key literary phenomena. Van Peer took up a position in Text Linguistics at the then experimental Faculty of Arts at Tilburg University in 1981. In 1987, he moved to Utrecht University where he became Associate Professor of Literary Theory, until 1997 when he was appointed to the Chair in Munich, Germany.

Later research and academic activities

Apart from authoring works [6] on foregrounding [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13], he studied narratology [14], literary evaluation [15] [16] [17] and love / emotion in literature / society [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23].

The growing interest in empirical study of literature created a need for a handbook on empirical research methods allowing for an interdisciplinary dialogue between literary studies and social sciences. It resulted in the 2012 handbook, written together with Sonia Zyngier (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Frank Hakemulder (Utrecht University and University of Stavanger).

van Peer was Vice President of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA, 1996–1998), Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA, 2000–2003) and (co-)editor of the series Linguistic Approaches to Literature, published by John Benjamins (2000–2010). He is also a Fellow for life at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. In 2011, van Peer founded the new international journal Scientific Study of Literature (SSOL) and acted as its first General Editor. The journal publishes research that applies scientific stringency to cast light on the structure and function of literature.

He has also published on an altogether different subject: the historical reality in which the New Testament emerged[24].

REDES project

The Research and Development in Empirical Studies project (REDES, 2002–2012) was inaugurated when Willie van Peer and Frank Hakemulder were invited to teach a summer course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and came into contact with an on-going project being carried out by Sonia Zyngier following the tenets of critical pedagogy. They invited Anna Chesnokova[ (then Kyiv National Linguistic University) to join. The central goal of the project was to promote an environment where students could become autonomous researchers through intercultural cooperation over the internet and through face to face events.[25].

For a decade, the REDES international research group investigated culture, literature, language and media from a multicultural perspective [26] [27] [28]

Private life

In 1970, van Peer married Mimi Debruyn, an art and architecture historian. After the end of his academic career, together they founded Mali-ka-di, a foundation for small-scale rural development, especially for girls’ education, in three remote villages in the savannah in Mali, West-Africa.

Major publications

Willie van Peer (1986), Stylistics and Psychology. Investigations of Foregrounding. London: Croom Helm.

Willie van Peer (ed) (1988), The Taming of the Text. Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture. London: Routledge (2nd edition 1991).

Willie van Peer and Seymour Chatman (eds) (2001), New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Willie van Peer and Max Louwerse (eds) (2002), Thematics. Interdisciplinary Studies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Willie van Peer (ed) (2008), The Quality of Literature. Linguistic Studies in the Evaluation of Literary Texts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Jan Auracher and Willie van Peer (eds) (2008), New Beginnings in the Study of Literature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier (2012), Scientific Methods for the Humanities. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova (forthcoming in 2022), Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

References

  1. ↑ "Visiting Professors - Willie van Peer". partner.kubg.edu.ua. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  2. ↑ "Prof. Willie van Peer, Ph.D. - Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprache - LMU München". www.daf.uni-muenchen.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  3. ↑ "Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  4. ↑ Peer, Willie van|Hakemulder (30 May 2012). Scientific Methods for the Humanities. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-7467-0.
  5. ↑ "Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  6. ↑ Graesser, Arthur C.; Morgan, Brent (2008), "An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions", Directions in Empirical Literary Studies, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 161–173, doi:10.1075/lal.5.15gra, ISBN 978-90-272-3337-0, retrieved 2021-07-24
  7. ↑ "Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future", Stylistics, BRILL, pp. 1–22, 2007-01-01, doi:10.1163/9789401205313_002, ISBN 978-90-420-2330-7, retrieved 2021-07-24
  8. ↑ van Peer, W.; Hakemulder, J. (2006), "Foregrounding", Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Elsevier, pp. 546–551, doi:10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/00511-3, ISBN 978-0-08-044854-1, retrieved 2021-07-24
  9. ↑ Zyngier, S.; van Peer, W.; Hakemulder, J. (2007-12-01). "Complexity and Foregrounding: In the Eye of the Beholder?". Poetics Today. 28 (4): 653–682. doi:10.1215/03335372-2007-011.
  10. ↑ van Peer, Willie (May 2007). "Introduction to foregrounding: a state of the art". Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics. 16 (2): 99–104. doi:10.1177/0963947007075978.
  11. ↑ van Peer, Willie; Hakemulder, J.; Zyngier, S. (May 2007). "Lines on feeling: foregrounding, aesthetics and meaning". Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics. 16 (2): 197–213. doi:10.1177/0963947007075985.
  12. ↑ van Peer, Willie; Nousi, Aikaterini (2007), "What Reading Does to Readers: Stereotypes, Foregrounding and Language Learning", Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 181–193, doi:10.1057/9780230624856_14, ISBN 978-1-349-54183-6, retrieved 2021-07-24
  13. ↑ van Peer, Willie (January 1993). "Typographic foregrounding". Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics. 2 (1): 49–61. doi:10.1177/096394709300200104.
  14. ↑ van Peer, Willie; Maat, Henk Pander (2001-08-01). "Narrative perspective and the interpretation of characters' motives". Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics. 10 (3): 229–241. doi:10.1177/0973-9470-20010803-04.
  15. ↑ van Peer, Willie (2008), Introduction, Linguistic Approaches to Literature, vol. 4, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 1–14, doi:10.1075/lal.4.01pee, ISBN 978-90-272-3336-3, retrieved 2021-07-24
  16. ↑ van Peer, Willie (2008), 1. Canon formation: Ideology or aesthetic quality?, Linguistic Approaches to Literature, vol. 4, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 17–29, doi:10.1075/lal.4.03pee, ISBN 978-90-272-3336-3, retrieved 2021-07-24
  17. ↑ van Peer, Willie (1997). "Multilated Signs: Notes toward a Literary Paleography". Poetics Today. 18 (1): 33–57. doi:10.2307/1773232. JSTOR 1773232.
  18. ↑ Peer, Willie; Chesnokova, Anna (2019). "What literature does to our emotions, and how do we know? Empirical studies will tell". Synopsis: Text, Context, Media. 1 (25). doi:10.28925/2311-259x.2019.1.1.
  19. ↑ Ludwig Maximilian University; van Peer, Willie; Chesnokova, Anna; Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University; Springer, Matthias; Ludwig Maximilian University (January 2017). "Distressful Empathy in Reading Literature: The Case for Terror Management Theory?". Science and Education. 12 (1): 33–41. doi:10.24195/2414-4665-2017-1-6.
  20. ↑ "Redenen die de aller-christelykste koning gehad heeft, om het testament van Carel de II. voor de verdeelinge van de successie van Spanjen te kiesen". Dutch Pamphlets Online. doi:10.1163/2214-8264_dutchpamphlets-kb1-kb17114. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  21. ↑ van Peer, Willie; Chesnokova, Anna (2021), ""How Do You Spell Love?"—"You Don't Spell It. You Feel It."", International Handbook of Love, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 789–806, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_42, ISBN 978-3-030-45995-6, retrieved 2021-07-24
  22. ↑ Chesnokova, Anna; van Peer, Willie (2021), ""There Are as Many Kinds of Love as There Are Hearts": Age-Gap Relationships in Literature and Cultural Attitudes", International Handbook of Love, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 807–826, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_43, ISBN 978-3-030-45995-6, retrieved 2021-07-24
  23. ↑ Peer, Willie van (1995). "Literature, Imagination, and Human Rights". Philosophy and Literature. 19 (2): 276–291. doi:10.1353/phl.1995.0104.
  24. ↑ van., Peer, Willie (2020). Hoe zag Jezus eruit?. ISBN 978-90-02-26902-8. OCLC 1131905369.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  25. ↑ Viana, Vander; Chesnokova, Anna; Zyngier, Sonia; van Peer, Willie (2010), "Budding Researchers in the Humanities", Cases on Distance Delivery and Learning Outcomes, IGI Global, pp. 231–244, doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-870-3.ch014, ISBN 978-1-60566-870-3, retrieved 2021-07-24
  26. ↑ Chesnokova, Anna; Zyngier, Sonia; Van Peer, Willie (2017-04-13). "Learning through Research: Invigorating the Humanities". Pedagogika. 125 (1): 195–210. doi:10.15823/p.2017.14.
  27. ↑ Vander., Zyngier, Sonia. Chesnokova, Anna. Viana (2007). Acting and connecting : cultural approaches to language and literature. Lit. ISBN 978-3-8258-0750-4. OCLC 171564212.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  28. ↑ Chesnokova, Anna; Zyngier, Sonia; Van Peer, Willie (2016-06-30). "Long-Term Research Assessing in the Humanities: A Case Study". Advanced Education. 0: 49. doi:10.20535/2410-8286.62949.

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