The passionate muse : exploring emotion in stories /
The emotions a character feels--Hamlet's vengefulness when he realizes his uncle has killed his father, Anna Karenina's despair when she feels she can longer sustain her life, Marcel's joy when he tastes a piece of madeleine cake--are vital aspects of the experience of fiction. As Kei...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780199921317 0199921318 1280593385 9781280593383 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The emotions a character feels--Hamlet's vengefulness when he realizes his uncle has killed his father, Anna Karenina's despair when she feels she can longer sustain her life, Marcel's joy when he tastes a piece of madeleine cake--are vital aspects of the experience of fiction. As Keith Oatley points out, it's not just the emotions of literary characters such as these in which we are interested. If we didn't ourselves experience emotions, we wouldn't go to the play, or watch the film, or read the book. In The Passionate Muse, Oatley, who is both a prize-winning novelist and a distinguished res. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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