What's Hecuba to Him?: Fictional Events and Actual Emotions

by E.M. Dadlez

Book Overview

Dadlez offers a clear, precise, and compelling account of why it is rational to have emotions for fictive characters. -Charles Altieri, University of California, BerkeleyFiction transports us. We inhabit new worlds in our imagination, adopt perspectives not our own, and even respond emotionally to persons and events that we know are not real.The very nature of our emotional engagement with fiction, says E. M. Dadlez, attests to the possibility of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271016515
• ISBN13: 9780271016511
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"