Literature and Emotion

ISBN-13: 9781138185203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 210 str.

Patrick Colm Hogan

Opis

Readers should come away from the book with a systematic understanding of recent research on and theorization of emotion, knowledge of the way affective science has impacted literary study, and a sense of how to apply that understanding and knowledge to literary works.

Spis treści

Series editor preface  Acknowledgements  Introduction. Getting Emotional About Literature  Chapter One. Why Emotion and Literature Today?  Chapter Two. The Two Faces of Affect Study  Chapter Three. What is Emotion?  Chapter Four. Authors (I): Affective Historicism  Chapter Five. Authors (II): Expressivism  Chapter Six. Readers (I): Enjoying Literature  Chapter Seven. Readers (II): Learning from Literature  Chapter Eight. Texts (I): Storyworlds and Stories  Chapter Nine. Text (II): Discourse and Style  Afterword. Affect Aliens in the Land of Emotion Studies  Glossary of Terms  Further Reading  Works Cited

O autorze

Patrick Colm Hogan is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author of over 20 books, including Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists (Routledge, 2003) and Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition (Routledge, 2014).