Understanding audience involvement: Conceptualizing and manipulating identification and transportation

Poetics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 402-418

  Tal Or, Nurit ^a   Cohen, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 77955276662     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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