Joys and sorrows of imaginary persons : on literary emotions / Donald Wesling.

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Wesling, Donald

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TextSeries: Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 16.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781435641112
1435641116
9789401205795
9401205795
9042023929
9789042023925

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Joys and sorrows of imaginary persons.DDC classification:

809/.93353 22

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PN56.E6 W47 2008eb

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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.

Summary: 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 proven that thinking and feeling are wrapped with each other, and regulate and fulfill each other. Accepting this co-creative equality, we reveal a new role for literature, or a traditional role we've repressed: literature as a set of processes in time where we've thought feeling through stories about t.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.

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 proven that thinking and feeling are wrapped with each other, and regulate and fulfill each other. Accepting this co-creative equality, we reveal a new role for literature, or a traditional role we've repressed: literature as a set of processes in time where we've thought feeling through stories about t.

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