Abstract: What is the relation between the we feel as we participate or enter into a novel, play, or poem and the we feel in the context of everyday life? In the context of the alleged education of the emotions through literature, teachers usually expect their pupils to be moved by what they read. But what connections are there between the which are appropriate to seeing a performance of King Lear or reading Anna Karenina and those which are a consequence of our involvement with people and events in the real world? C. A. Mace sums up a conclusion which is common to preceding philosophical discussions of and which can be extended to all responses: Every emotion or affective state involves a 'judgment', an appraisal of a situation, a perception of some feature of the situation,
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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