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What literature teaches us about emotion /
"Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. It is particularly valuable because it deepens our comprehension of the mutual relations between emotional response and ethical judgment. These are the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in emotion and social interaction.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. It is particularly valuable because it deepens our comprehension of the mutual relations between emotional response and ethical judgment. These are the central claims of Hogan's study, which carefully examines a range of highly esteemed literary works in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological and other empirical research. In this work, he explains the value of literary study for a cognitive science of emotion and outlines the emotional organization of the human mind. He explores the emotions of romantic love, grief, mirth, guilt, shame, jealousy, attachment, compassion and pity - in each case drawing on one work by Shakespeare and one or more works by writers from different historical periods or different cultural backgrounds, such as the eleventh-century Chinese poet Li Ch'ing-Chao and the contemporary Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511993343 051199334X 9780511991332 0511991339 9780511976773 0511976771 661299441X 9786612994418 9781107477742 1107477743 0511994559 9780511994555 1107220637 9781107220638 1282994417 9781282994416 0511992300 9780511992308 0511989547 9780511989544 0511987749 9780511987748 |