Interpretaciones

<i>Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature</i> examines readers' reactions to short texts during crucial moments of the reading experience. These readers are students at universities in the US and several Spanish-speaking countries. Far from reducing the reading experience to a series of numbers the data-driven approaches in the study instead underline the startling complexity and elusiveness of seemingly basic literary processes and concepts including those pertaining to authorship titles conclusions and so on. Simultaneously <i>Interpretaciones</i> suggests alternative methodologies for gaining new and unexpected knowledge about literary texts themselves whether from Latin America or elsewhere. <i>Interpretaciones</i> is an ambitious interdisciplinary project geared toward those interested in literary theory Latin American and Caribbean literature and the nexus between literature and science.