A qualitative empirical study was conducted on Alice Walker(Afro-American Female writer)'s best work Purple,from the perspective of cognitive feminism through two methods-ques-tionnaire survey and interview as well as close-reading within general cognitive poetics.The study has found that"Reader-oriented"interviews have got emotional reactions of male and female inter-viewees though varying from person to person,time to time and scene to scene,in the aspects of char-acters'bodies,minds and emotions in terms of language,stylistic effects,thematic expression,and empathy when reading this novel;while"Text-oriented"close-reading research,guided by the theory of possible worlds,has peeped into the psychological representations and inner-thought activi-ties of female characters from the various levels of the worlds by peeling off the thickness of texture layer by layer and revealed Afro-American females'emotional anxieties and ideological conscious-ness,which embodies Alice Walker's stand,appeal and style in the novel.The two research methods are both independent and interrelated,in which the interview method provides useful data and support for close-reading study,whereas close-reading method results in further deepening and extension of the interview data.
general cognitive poeticscognitive feminismpossible worldemotional anxietyPurple
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