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-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Introduction: Studying Literature, Studying Emotion; 1. Fictions And Feelings: On The Place Of Literature In The Study Of Emotion; 2. What Emotions Are; 3. Romantic Love: Sappho, Li Ch'ing-chao, And Romeo And Juliet; 4. Grief: Kobayashi Issa And Hamlet; 5. Mirth: From Chinese Jokes To A Comedy Of Errors; 6. Guilt, Shame, Jealousy: The Strong Breed, Macbeth, Kagekiyo, And Othello; 7. From Attachment To Ethical Feeling: Rabindranath Tagore And Measure For Measure; 8. Compassion And Pity: The Tempest And Une Tempête; Afterword: Studying Literature Shaping Emotion: Madame Bovary And The Sublime. Patrick Colm Hogan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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Hogan, Patrick Colm

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations

Greenwich Medical Media Ltd

Studies in emotion and social interaction, Cambridge, New York, England, 2011

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series, New York, NY, 2011

Studies in emotion and social interaction, New York, 2014

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1st Edition, First Edition, PT, 2011

Illustrated, 2011

2011 12 30

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Figures......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction: Studying Literature Studying Emotion......Page 17
1. Fictions and Feelings: On the Place of Literature in the Study of Emotion......Page 27
Representation......Page 29
Explanation and Interpretation......Page 31
Representation, Ecological Validity, and Simulation......Page 34
Some Limits on the Depictive Accuracy of Literature......Page 40
Three Levels of Literary Relevance to the Study of Emotion......Page 43
The Generality of Verbal Art: On Stories......Page 44
Universal Genres: The Love Story......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 53
The Structural Components of Emotion: Neurons, Neuroanatomical Regions, and Systems......Page 56
The Perceptual Causes of Emotion Circuit Activation......Page 62
The Origins of Eliciting Conditions......Page 64
Emotion Episodes......Page 67
A Minimal, Multicomponent Account of Emotion......Page 75
A Note on Ethics and Emotion......Page 77
Conclusion......Page 87
Romantic Spaces: Desire, Attachment, and Dependency......Page 92
Romantic Time: Durations and Trajectories......Page 102
Romeo and Juliet......Page 105
Conclusion......Page 124
Chronicle of a Death......Page 127
Hamlet, Mourning, and Mood Repair......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 155
5. Mirth: From Chinese Jokes to The Comedy of Errors......Page 160
Comic Evolution......Page 161
Life Under the Grandstand: More on Mechanisms......Page 166
A Note on Chinese Humor......Page 172
The Comedy of Errors......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 189
Macbeth and Emotions of Self-Blame......Page 191
The Strong Breed......Page 208
Kagekiyo......Page 212
Othello: Jealousy, Humiliation, and Shame......Page 215
Conclusion......Page 232
The Morality of Leaving Home......Page 237
What Morality Is Not......Page 240
The Development of Ethics......Page 244
Conflicts of Feeling......Page 247
Conflicts of Obligation......Page 250
Attachment, Disgust, and the Dynamics of Moral Emotions......Page 253
Love and Contempt in a Time of Syphilis: Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure......Page 259
Conclusion......Page 270
Ethics against Adaptation......Page 273
The Tempest......Page 278
Une Tempête......Page 285
Literary Empathy, Pity, and Compassion......Page 292
Conclusion......Page 299
Afterword: Studying Literature Shaping Emotion: Madame Bovary and the Sublime......Page 303
A Life Ruined by Stories: Madame Bovary and Her Literary Emotions......Page 304
Conclusion......Page 316
Works Cited......Page 321
Index......Page 339
Titles published in the Second Series......Page 353

"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"-- NL-ZmNBD

Literature provides us with insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. Hogan's study explores emotions in the context of current neurobiological, psychological and sociological research. In each case, he draws on Shakespeare and writers from different historical periods or different cultural backgrounds.

2012-02-04