Emotion and the Arts.

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Main Author: Hjort, Mette
Other Authors: Laver, Sue
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1 Emotion in Response to Art: A Survey of the Terrain; PART I: The Paradox of Fiction; 2 Spelunking, Simulation, and Slime: On Being Moved by Fiction; 3 Imagining Emotions and Appreciating Fiction; 4 The Paradox of Caring: Fiction and the Philosophy of Mind; 5 The Paradox of Fiction: The Report versus the Perceptual Model; PART II: Emotion and Its Expression through Art; 6 Contra the Hypothetical Persona in Music; 7 Emotion in Music; 8 Emotion and Emotions in Theatre Dance; PART III: The Rationality of Emotional Responses to Art; 9 On Looking into Titian's Assumption.
  • 10 Evaluating Emotional Responses to Fiction11 Fetishism and Objectivity in Aesthetic Emotion; 12 Art, Narrative, and Emotion; PART IV: The Value of Emotion; 13 Toward a Poetics of Emotion; 14 In Defense of Sentimentality; 15 The Anaesthetics of Emotion; 16 Emotions and Identification: Connections Between Readers and Fiction; References; Contributors.