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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817795603321

Titolo

Emotion and the arts / / editors, Mette Hjort, Sue Laver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-19-773028-0

0-585-21177-9

1-280-45341-9

1-4237-4111-0

0-19-535491-5

1-60256-165-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Disciplina

700/.1/9

Soggetti

Emotions in art

Arts - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 Fiction; 11 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