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Joys and sorrows of imaginary persons : on literary emotions /
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 pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Colección: | Consciousness, literature & the arts ;
16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (221 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435641112 1435641116 9789401205795 9401205795 9042023929 9789042023925 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2193 ; |