What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion

by Patrick Colm Hogan

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107477743
• ISBN13: 9781107477742
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"