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Deeper than reason : emotion and its role in literature, music, and art / Jenefer Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Jenefer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art appreciation--Psychological aspects.
- Art appreciation.
- Personality and creative ability.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Emotions in art.
- Emotions in literature.
- Emotions in music.
- Music--Psychological aspects.
- Music.
- Musical perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 500 pages) : illustrations, music
- Other Title:
- Emotion and its role in literature, music, and art
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Taking the insights of modern scientific research on the emotions and using them to illuminate questions about our emotional involvement with the arts, this title begins by laying out a theory of emotion, and then in the light of this theory examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts.
- Contents:
- What are emotions and how do they operate? Emotions as judgements
- Boiling of the blood
- Emotion as process
- Emotion in literature. The importance of being emotional
- Puzzles and paradoxes
- A sentimental education
- Formal devices as coping mechanisms
- Expressing emotion in the arts. Pouring forth the soul
- A new romantic theory of expression
- Music and the emotions. Emotional expression in music
- The expression of emotion in instrumental music
- Listening with emotion : how our emotions help us to understand music
- Feeling the music
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-920426-8
- 1-281-19822-6
- 9786611198220
- 0-19-153251-7
- 1-4356-2226-X
- OCLC:
- 191092224
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