Abstract In the survey 115 participants read one of four books by Svend Age Madsen, Lars Skinnebach, Pia Juul and Maja Lee Langvad, respectively, and were asked about their valuation, expectations and own generic classification of the work. The books all have a singular, non-standard genre label (genre signature), and the main hypothesis was that this paratextual marker would have an effect on the expectations and experience of the readers. The hypothesis was only partly confirmed, but other findings were made among which two are to be highlighted: 1) The participants had difficulties generically classifying in an unambiguous manner suggesting that the self-claimed extraordinary genre status is reflected in the actual texts. 2) In general, the participants did not like the books, though these are all critically acclaimed. This points towards the old distinction between low and high culture still being relevant and suggests that the genre signature might be a marker of the latter. The article ends with a discussion of the role of empirical studies within literary theory.

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“ Den var ikke onkelagtig nok”。缺乏经验的实践经验

摘要在调查中，有115位参与者分别阅读了Svend Age Madsen，Lars Skinnebach，Pia Juul和Maja Lee Langvad的四本书中的一本书，并被询问了他们的估价，期望和作品的一般分类。这些书都有一个单一的，非标准的体裁标签（体裁签名），主要假设是该超文本标记会影响读者的期望和体验。该假说仅得到了部分证实，但还提出了其他发现，其中有两个要特别指出：1）参与者很难以明确的方式进行一般分类，这表明自称非凡的流派状态已反映在实际文本中。2）总体而言，参与者并不喜欢这些书，尽管这些书都广受好评。这表明低文化和高文化之间的旧区别仍然很重要，并表明体裁特征可能是后者的标志。本文最后讨论了实证研究在文学理论中的作用。