Bentz, M., Fecht, J. v.d., Karch, A.A., Köppe, T., Luiking, A., Schwartze, I., Sedo, J.: Was fragt man sich, wenn es spannend ist? Eine Annotationsstudie zur Fragenstruktur spannender Narrationen. In: PhiN 97/2024, 1-22.
Bentz, M., Cortez Espinoza, M., Simeonova, V., Köppe, T., Onea, E.: Measuring Suspense in Real Time: A New Experimental Methodology. In: Scientific Study of Literature. 12, 1. 2024. 92-112. DOI: 10.61645/ssol.182
Hirsch, K., Köppe, T., Onea, E.: What is Narrative Suspense? Evidence from Production Studies. In: Journal of Literary Theory 19 (2025), 460-488.
Köppe, T., Onea, E.: The Nearly Missed Account of Narrative Suspense. In: Frontiers of Narrative Studies 9 (2023), 273-289.
Onea, E., Köppe, T., Cortez Espinoza, M., Bentz, M., & Simeonova, V. (2026). The linguistic basis of narrative suspense: narrative suspense depends on potentially inquiry-terminating questions. Language and Cognition, 18, e8. doi:10.1017/langcog.2025.10057
Köppe, T., Onea, E. Konturen literarischer Spannung. In: Sonderausgabe # 7 von Textpraxis: Digitales Journal für Philologie, 2.2023. DOI: 10.17879/19958490038
Klauk, T., T. Köppe and Edgar Onea 2016. More on Narrative Closure.
In: Journal of Literary Semantics 45, 21-48. DOI: 10.1515/jls-2016-0003
Klauk, T., T. Köppe and T. Weskott 2016. Empirical Correlates of Narrative Closure.
In: Diegesis 5. URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:468-20160607-152704-7
Köppe, T. 2008: Kann man ein Buch spannend finden, obwohl man weiß, wie es endet? Überlegungen zum Paradox der Spannung. In: Zwischen Text und Leser. Studien zu Begriff, Geschichte und Funktion literarischer Spannung. Eds: I. Irsigler, Ch. Jürgensen and D. Langer. München, 68-81.
Köppe, T. and T. Kindt. 2014: Erzähltheorie. Stuttgart. Reclam.
Onea, E. 2016: Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Leiden and Boston: Brill (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, 33). DOI: 10.1163/9789004217935
Onea, E. 2019. Underneath rhetorical relations. The case of result. In: M. Zimmermann, K. von Heusinger and E. Onea (eds.): Questions in Disocurse Leiden and Boston: Brill 194–250 DOI:10.1163/9789004378322_008
7.12.2025: Phonetic Characteristics of Suspenseful Storytelling. Maria Bentz
6.10.2025: Poster: Phonetische Charakteristika spannenden Vorlesens. Maria Bentz.
25.6.2024: What happened? Edgar Onea
11.5.2024: Immersion und Leserfragen – Zur Ursache von Spannung. Maya Cortez Espinoza
6.2.2024: An erotetic theory of narration. Edgar Onea
10.10.2023: The erotetic theory of suspense. Edgar Onea
13. 10.2023: Poster: Phonetic Properties of suspenseful Storytelling. Maria Bentz
21.9.2023: Missed It? Question Based Discourse Models and Narrative Suspense. Maya Cortez Espinoza & Maria Bentz
29.8.2023: This could be the end. Edgar Onea & Maya Cortez Espinoza
18.10.2022: Text. Erotetische und ästhetische Features. Edgar Onea
17.10.2022: Spannung, Einführung. Edgar Onea
8.7.2022: Measuring Suspense: Discussion of Results. Maya Cortez Espinoza, Edgar Onea
8.7.2022: The near miss account of narrative suspense. Tilmann Köppe, Edgar Onea
Graz, Wintersemester 2023, Edgar Onea: Interdisziplinäres Modul (Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik im Gespräch: Über die ästhetische Wirkung sprachlicher Verfahren)
Edgar Onea was interviewed for an Austrian Hungarian online Magazine. Here is the full transcript.
In 2023 and 2025, a workshop on narrative suspense took place in the course of the university's Open Day. In each of these events, about 50 students attended the workshop.
Tilmann Köppe presented our project at a science slam in 2023.
At the Göttingen University Science Fair (Nacht des Wissens 2022), our group maintained a stand where we represented our project and showed our suspense measurement software to the public.