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The Passionate Muse - Exploration of emotion in stories (Hardcover, New)
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The Passionate Muse - Exploration of emotion in stories (Hardcover, New)
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Fiction is based on narratives in which characters act on their
intentions and encounter vicissitudes. Readers enjoy entering into
the lives of characters, coming to empathize with them as their
plans progress or they meet obstacles. Readers enjoy, too, meeting
characters with whom they sympathize, and being reminded of
emotional episodes in their own lives. Keith Oatley is both a
novelist and research psychologist, and so it is not surprising
that he has created a hybrid text that alternates between sections
of an original short story, One Another, and chapters on the
psychology of emotion and fiction. People's enjoyment of stories
depends on the emotions they experience as they read, watch, or
listen. We human beings are intensely social and it's to imagined
social worlds that fiction transports us, enabling us to meet more
people and feel for them in many more situations than we could if
we lived many lives. In this text, the author explains why people
who read a great deal of fiction have better understandings of
others than those who tend to read nonfiction. He argues that
through fiction, we come to know more about the emotions of others
and of ourselves.
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