1st Edition

Literature and Emotion

By Patrick Hogan Copyright 2018
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    Literature and Emotion not only provides a defining overview of the field but also engages with emerging trends. Answering key questions such as ‘What is emotion?’ and ‘Why emotion and literature today?,’ Patrick Colm Hogan presents a clear and accessible introduction to this exciting topic. Readers should come away from the book with a systematic understanding of recent research on and theorization of emotion, knowledge of the way affective science has impacted literary study, and a sense of how to apply that understanding and knowledge to literary works.

    Series editor preface

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction. Getting Emotional About Literature

    Chapter One. Why Emotion and Literature Today?

    Chapter Two. The Two Faces of Affect Study

    Chapter Three. What is Emotion?

    Chapter Four. Authors (I): Affective Historicism

    Chapter Five. Authors (II): Expressivism

    Chapter Six. Readers (I): Enjoying Literature

    Chapter Seven. Readers (II): Learning from Literature

    Chapter Eight. Texts (I): Storyworlds and Stories

    Chapter Nine. Text (II): Discourse and Style

    Afterword. Affect Aliens in the Land of Emotion Studies

    Glossary of Terms

    Further Reading

    Works Cited

    Biography

    Patrick Colm Hogan is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author of over 20 books, including Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists (Routledge, 2003) and Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition (Routledge, 2014).