Academic Education

Journal Articles

Kentner, G., Franz, I., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2023). The final lengthening of pre-boundary syllables turns into final shortening as boundary strength levels increase. Journal of Phonetics, 97, Article 101225. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101225

Knoop, C. A., Kegel, V., Sanja, M., Sascha, R., Julia, V., & Menninghaus, W. (2023). Manual for the Annotation of Parallelisms und Deviations in Rhymed and Metered Texts. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xvrdu 

Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Schindler, I., Knoop, C. A., Blohm, S., Frieler, K., & Scharinger, M. (2023). Parallelisms and deviations: two fundamentals of an aesthetics of poetic diction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1895), Article 20220424. doi:10.1098/rstb.2022.0424

Aristei, S., Knoop, C. A., Lubrich, O., Nehrlich, T., Enge, A., Stark, K., Sommer, W., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Affect as Anaesthetic: how emotional contexts modulate the processing of counterintuitive concepts. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-17. doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2085312 

Franz, I., Knoop, C. A., Kentner, G., Rothbart, S., Kegel, V., Vasilieva, J., Methner, S., Scharinger, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Prosodic Phrasing and Syllable Prominence in Spoken Prose. A Validated Coding Manual. OSF Preprints.doi:10.31219/osf.io/h4sd5 

Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., Wagner, V., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Neural processing of poems and songs is based on melodic properties. Neuroimage, 257, Article 119310. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119310 

Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/aca0000465 

Knoop, C. A., Blohm, S., Kraxenberger, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). How perfect are imperfect rhymes? Effects of phonological similarity and verse context on rhyme perception. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(3), 560–572.  doi:10.1037/aca0000277

Wagner, V., Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). Effects of continuous self-reporting on aesthetic evaluation and emotional responses. Poetics, 85, Article 101497. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101497 

Kraxenberger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 96. doi:10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3 

Tavano, A., Blohm, S., Knoop, C. A., Muralikrishnan, R., Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., et al. (2020). Neural harmonics reflect grammaticality. bioRxiv - The Preprint Server for Biology, Preprint. Retrieved from Neural harmonics reflect grammaticality | bioRxiv

Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Kegel, V., Knoop, C. A., & Schlotz, W. (2019). Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared. Plos One, 14(6), Article e0218728.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0218728

Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M. (2018). Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language. Plos One, 13(11), Article  e0205980.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205980

Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Wassiliwizky, E., Jacobsen, T., & Knoop, C. A. (2017). The emotional and aesthetic powers of parallelistic diction. Poetics, 63, 47–59.  doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2016.12.001

Knoop, C. A., Wagner, V., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2016). Mapping the aesthetic space of literature from "below". Poetics, 56, 35–49. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2016.02.001

Menninghaus, W., Bohrn, I. C., Knoop, C. A., Kotz, S. A., Schlotz, W., & Jacobs, A. M. (2015). Rhetorical features facilitate prosodic processing while handicapping ease of semantic comprehension. Cognition, 143(0), 48–60. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.05.026

Knoop, C. A. (2012). „Und fast ein Mädchen wars“: Zur Darstellbarkeit von Inspiration bei Rainer Maria Rilke. The German Quarterly, 85(3), 253–274. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1183.2012.00149.x

Knoop, C. A. (2012). Over the edge of the mental map: On the narrative functions of wilderness in Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut. Romance Studies, 30(1), 36–47. doi:10.1179/174581512X13221535571812

Knoop, C. A. (2006). Fictional communication. Developing Gregory Bateson’s “Theory of Play and Fantasy”. Kybernetes, 36.7-8 [Interdisciplinary Gregory Bateson Memorial Issue], 1113–1121. doi:10.1108/03684920710777900

Book Chapters

Blohm, S., & Knoop, C. A. (2022). Rhyme. In P. Gill (Ed.), An Introduction to Poetic Forms (pp. 9-22). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003244004-3

Blohm, S., & Knoop, C. A. (2022). What to expect from a poem? The primacy of rhyme in college students’ conceptions of poetry. In V. Sykäri & N. Fabb (Eds.), Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song (pp. 264–276). Finnish Literature Society. doi:10.21435/sff.25/

Knoop, C. A. (2022). Undurchdringlich dunkle Sprachen. Überlegungen zum formalstilistischen Gestus der 95 Thesen. In T. Ballhausen, M. A. Hainz, & M. Schmidt (Eds.), Triëdere - Zeitschrift für Theorie, Literatur und Kunst - Special Issue: Der philologische Affekt. Schreiben mit Werner Hamacher (pp. 67-79).  Sonderzahl Verlag.  

Blohm, S., Kraxenberger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M. (2021). Sound Shape and Sound Effects of Literary Texts. In D. Kuiken, & A. M. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 7-38). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110645958-002

Kraxenberger, M., & Knoop, C. A. (2020). Grundriss der empirischen Literaturwissenschaft- Eine Gebrauchsanweisung In Y. Sakamoto, F. Jäger, & T. Jun (Eds.), Bilder als Denkformen - Bildwissenschaftliche Dialoge zwischen Japan und Deutschland (pp. 215–220). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.  doi:10.1515/9783110582406-018

Knoop, C. A. (2019). Empirische Zugänge zur Erforschung sprachlicher Rhythmen in der Literatur. In P. Nicklas (Ed.), Literatur und Musik im Künstevergleich. Empirische und hermeneutische Methoden (pp. 58–76). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Knoop, C. A. (2019). Momentaufnahmen der Begegnung mit Literatur. Annäherung an einen Erlebnisbegriff für die empirische Literaturwissenschaft. In M. Lessau & N. Zügel (Eds.), Rückkehr des Erlebnisses in die Geisteswissenschaften?: Philosophische und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven (pp. 59–76). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG .  doi:10.5771/9783956505102-59

Knoop, C. A. (2016). Criticism or ressentiment? Literary Ssudies and the politics of interdisciplinarity. In J. Riou & M. Gallagher (Eds.), Re-Thinking Ressentiment. On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of its Critics (pp. 149–166). Bielefeld: transcript.

Knoop, C. A. (2016). Ausgangspunkte neu erzählen: Der Raum der Herkunft in Jean Genets Journal du Voleur. In M. Benz & K. Dennerlein (Eds.), Literarische Räume der Herkunft. Fallstudien zu einer historischen Narratologie (Vol. 11, pp. 311–335). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Knoop, C. A., & Nehrlich, T. (2015). Wunder als minimal kontraintuitive Konzepte. Ein Beitrag zur Klassifikation von Erfahrungswidrigkeit in den Grimm'schen Kinder- und Hausmärchen. In C. Brinker-von der Heyde, H. Ehrhardt, H.-H. Ewers & A. Inder (Eds.), Märchen, Mythen und Moderne. 200 Jahre Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm, vol 2 (pp. 703–720). Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.

Lubrich, O., Knoop, C. A., & Jacobs, A. (2014). Jean Genet und die Ästhetisierung des Abweichenden. Ein interdisziplinäres Experiment. In M. N. Lorenz & O. Lubrich (Eds.), Jean Genet und Deutschland (pp. 393–411). Gifkendorf: Merlin.

Knoop, C. A. (2014). Haben Gender und Queer Studies mit Genet ein Problem? In M. N. Lorenz & O. Lubrich (Eds.), Jean Genet und Deutschland (pp. 217–239). Gifkendorf: Merlin.

Peter, N., Knoop, C. A., v. Wedemeyer, C., & Lubrich, O. (2012). Sprachbilder der Krise. Metaphern im medialen und politischen Diskurs. In K. Lämmle, A. Peltzer, & A. Wagenknecht (Eds.), Krise, Cash & Kommunikation - Analysen zur Darstellung der Finanzkrise in den Medien (pp. 49–69). Konstanz: UVK.

Knoop, C. A. (2012). Architecture and Utopia in Scheerbart’s Rakkóx der Billionär. In N. Grigorian, T. Baldwin, & M. Rigaud-Drayton (Eds.), Text & Image Relations in Modern European Culture  (pp. 115–129). Amsterdam: Purdue.

Knoop, C. A. (2011). “Here lies Dwight, here lies his gun. He was bad, now he’s done”. On Justice and Schadenfreude. In A. Burger (Ed.), The Television World of Pushing Daisies: Critical Essays on the Bryan Fuller Series (pp. 92–114). Jefferson: McFarland.

Knoop, C. A. (2011). Dangerous disguise: On the relation between Kitsch and the Arts. In M. Mathias, M. O'Sullivan, & R. Vorstman (Eds.), Display and Disguise (pp. 145–161). Oxford: Peter Lang.

Knoop, C. A. (2011). Is digression a viable concept for Literary Studies? Cross-generic writing and authorial intrusion in Milan Kundera’s L’Immortalité. In R. Atkin (Ed.), Textual Wanderings. The Theory and Practice of Narrative Digression (pp. 112–126). London: Maney.

Edited Book

Lubrich, O. & Knoop, C. A. (Eds.). (2013). Cumaná 1799. Alexander von Humboldt’s Voyage Between Europe and the Americas. Bielefeld: Aisthesis.

Monograph

Knoop, C. A. (2018). Franz Kafka. Baden-Baden: Tectum-Verlag.

Knoop, C. A. (2011). Kundera and the ambiguity of authorship. London: Maney.

Short Writings

Knoop, C. A. (2017). [German Aesthetics: Fundamental concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno, ed. by J. D. Mininger and Jason Michael Peck]. The Modern Language Review, 112(4), 1022-1024.

Shah, M. & Knoop, C. A. (2014). Emotional exposures. When art met science at the gallery. Essay accompanying the exhibition The Pleasure of Negative Emotions, KNIPSU, Bergen 21.05.-15-06.2014. KNIPSU

Knoop, C. A. (2011). Toward a theory of observers in action. Open peer commentary on the target article “From Objects to Processes: A Proposal to Rewrite Radical Constructivism” by Siegfried J. Schmidt. Constructivist Foundations, 7.1, 10–12.

Knoop, C. A. (2007). Beyond dualism: On S. J. Schmidt’s attempt to rewrite constructivism. Constructivist Foundations, 3(1), 55.