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Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Keith Oatley


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The emotions a character feels--Hamlet's vengefulness when he realizes his uncle has killed his father, Anna Karenina's despair when she feels she can longer sustain her life, Marcel's joy when he tastes a piece of madeleine cake--are vital aspects of the experience of fiction. As Keith Oatley points out, it's not just the emotions of literary characters such as these in which we are interested. If we didn't ourselves experience emotions, we wouldn't go to the play, or watch the film, or read the book. In The Passionate Muse, Oatley, who is both a prize-winning novelist and a distinguished research psychologist, offers a hybrid book that alternates sections of an original short story, "One Another," with chapters that illuminate the psychology of emotion and fiction. Oatley not only provides insight into how people engage in stories, he also illuminates the value of emotion and the importance of stories for our psychological well-being. Indeed, he offers evidence that the more
fiction we read, the better is our understandings of others. Through fiction, we come to know more about the emotions of others and ourselves.

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  • Title Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories
  • Author Keith Oatley
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
  • Date 2012-03-23
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780199767632 / 0199767637
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Psychological
  • Library of Congress subjects Emotions, Psychology and literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011049782
  • Dewey Decimal Code 152.4

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/01/2012, Page 112
  • Quill & Quire, 06/01/2012, Page 32

About the author


Keith Oatley is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three novels and six books of psychology, and co-author of the textbook Understanding Emotions.
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