Jenefer Robinson

Deeper than Reason Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art (Paperback)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jenefer Robinson takes the insights of modern scientific research on the emotions and uses them to illuminate questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Laying out a theory of emotion supported by the best evidence from current empirical work, she examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the emotions and how they work, aswell as anyone engaged with the arts and aesthetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780199204267
• ISBN-10: 0199204268
• Artikelnr.: 22534676

Inhaltsangabe

I. What are Emotions and How do they Operate?
1: Emotions as Judgements
2: Boiling of the Blood
3: Emotion as Process
II. Emotion in Literature
4: The Importance of Being Emotional
5: Puzzles and Paradoxes
6: A Sentimental Education
7: Formal Devices as Coping Mechanisms
III. Expressing Emotions in the Arts
8: Pouring Forth the Soul
9: A New Romantic Theory of Expression
IV. Music and the Emotions
10: Emotional Expression in Music
11: The Expression of Emotion in Instrumental Music
12: Listening with Emotion: how our emotions help us to understand music
13: Feeling the Music
14: Epilogue