Joys and sorrows of imaginary persons : on literary emotions /
Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons is a literary approach to consciousness where Donald Wesling denies that emotion is the scandal or handmaid of reason--rather emotion is the co-creator with reason of human life in the world. Discoveries in neuro-science in the 1990s Decade of the Brain have pro...
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2008
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| Series: | Consciousness, literature & the arts ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: On Literary Emotions; Part I. Person, Relation, Theory; Chapter 1: Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons; Chapter 2: A Feeling of and, a Feeling of if : Emotion as Relation; Chapter 3: A Theory of Literary Emotion; Part II. Examples Cognitive, Narrative and Historical; Chapter 4: Pity, Fear, and Arrangement in W.C. Williams and Shakespeare; Chapter 5: The Wide Net of Storytelling; Chapter 6: The Story of One Story; Afterword: A Role for Literature; Bibliography; Index.
