Deeper Than Reason
Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Robinson, Jenefer
Deeper Than Reason
Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Robinson, Jenefer
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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, this title examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts. It is for those interested in the emotions and how they work.
Contents
- 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
