| Description |
1 online resource (221 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Consciousness, literature & the arts,
1573-2193 ;
16
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Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 16.
1573-2193
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emotions in literature.
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Emotions in literature. |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wesling, Donald. Joys and sorrows of imaginary persons. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008 9042023929 9789042023925 (OCoLC)226166572 |
| ISBN |
9781435641112 (electronic book) |
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1435641116 (electronic book) |
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9789401205795 |
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9401205795 |
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9042023929 |
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9789042023925 |
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9042023929 |
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9789042023925 |
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