What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion
What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion by Patrick Colm Hogan, published by Cambridge University Press on March 21, 2011, is a first edition that spans 352 pages. This book explores how literature offers unique insights into the production, experience, and enactment of emotions within human social life. Hogan’s study emphasizes the relationship between emotional responses and ethical judgments, examining esteemed literary works alongside contemporary neurobiological and psychological research.
Readers will find a thorough analysis of various emotions, including romantic love, grief, and compassion, as Hogan draws connections between these feelings and significant literary texts. The book incorporates works by Shakespeare and other writers from diverse historical and cultural backgrounds, such as the eleventh-century Chinese poet Li Ch’ing-Chao and contemporary Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka. Through this exploration, Hogan outlines the emotional organization of the human mind, contributing to the fields of psychology, literary criticism, and cognitive science.
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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.
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