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Emotions Induced by Narratives
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 377–384.
Published: 01 June 2008
... Press). 1992 “Telling in Time (II): Chronology, Teleology, Narrativity,” Poetics Today 13 : 463 -541. Emotions Induced by Narratives
Emma Kafalenos
Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
Raphaël Baroni, La tension narrative: Suspense, curiosité, et surprise...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 1–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
... . Andringa Els 1996 `` Effects of `Narrative Distance' on Readers' Emotional Involvement and Response , Poetics 23 : 431 – 52 . Andringa Els Schreier Margrit , eds. 2004 `` How Literature Enters Life. Special issue , Poetics Today 25 : 161 – 398 . Aristotle 1997...
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A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and Emotions
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of fiction—George Eliot's Middlemarch —with his arguments in mind. Eliot's novel also raises issues about the way that narrative connects with emotions, issues that, I argue, illuminate the structure of narrative itself. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 References...
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Emotions and the Structuring of Narrative Responses
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 323–348.
Published: 01 June 2011
...David S. Miall Research that suggests the primacy of the emotions provides the context for a study of some of the processes sustained by the emotions during literary reading. In particular, the early processing of emotion in response to language, including narrative, is shown by several ERP (evoked...
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Poetics of Emotion in Times of Agony: Letters from Exile, 1933–1940
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 129–169.
Published: 01 March 2011
... explores the expression of highly emotional experience in private letters, written at the time by professional literary writers and now available in print. Starting from existing linguistic, stylistic, and narrative studies of verbal emotional expression, a selection of representative epistolary texts...
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Kept in the Loop: Narrative Play and Epistemic Emotions
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2025
...’ epistemic emotions: affective states that regulate the processing of information, such as interest and confusion. Reflecting on earlier findings from a pilot experiment in which sixty viewers continuously reported on their feelings of interest and confusion during a short time loop film ( Mouse-X by Justin...
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“Some Powerful Rankling Passion”: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Joanna Baillie’s Passion Plays
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 2019
...M. Soledad Caballero; Aimee Knupsky The article considers how Joanna Baillie’s concept of “sympathetick curiosity” informs contemporary discussions about emotion regulation. By focusing on Baillie’s De Monfort (1798) and Orra (1812), the article argues that regulatory flexibility is a learned skill...
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Narrative Universals, Emotion, and Ethics
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 187–204.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Patrick Colm Hogan Some recent writers on ethics, prominently Jonathan Haidt, have seen emotion and narrative as central to moral judgment and behavior. However, much of this work is not clear about the precise nature of emotion and narrative or the relation of the two to each other and to ethics...
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Staging Sincerity in Renaissance Italy and Early Modern China; or, Why Real Lovers Quarrel
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 281–299.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of musical theater from these geographically remote traditions to argue that use of historically problematic romances to explore the relationship of ethics, emotion, and reason resulted in novel depictions of attachment emotions as neither purely selfless “gut reactions” nor calculating facades. Scenes...
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The Poetry of September 11: The Testimonial Imperative
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., became the primary venue where the narratives and the emotions collected. Its intrinsic democratic character was utilized, and every testimony of emotion or witness was accepted as equally privileged, so a television witness had as much right to feel and express this emotion as an actual witness...
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Prose and Poetry: Wimsatt's Verbal Icon and the Romantic Poetics of New Criticism
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 1–37.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Harris Friedberg Foremost theorist of the New Criticism, W. K. Wimsatt, inherits from the Romantics the desire to differentiate poetry from prose on essentialist rather than formal grounds. In I. A. Richards, a new antithesis between the symbolic or referential use of language and its emotive use...
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Why Is Literature: A Coevolutionary Perspective on Imaginative Worldmaking
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 21–42.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Paul Hernadi Since prehistoric times literature has been serving two complementary functions: to expand the cognitive, emotive, and volitional horizons of human awareness and to integrate our beliefs, feelings, and desires within the fluid mentality required for survival in the complex social...
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Prelinguistic and Preliterate Substrates of Poetic Narrative
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., paleoarchaeology, and neuroscience, this article describes five “proto-”aesthetic devices and three “principles of salience” that universally inhere in mother/infant interaction and that remain important substrates of emotional response to literature. The article argues that our sensitivity to some nonverbal...
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The Ethics of Neurobiological Narratives
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Darcia Narvaez Narratives are embedded in human biology. Each individual's emotional system is shaped by early experience and can be viewed as a biosocial personal grammar for the social life. A child builds a biosocial grammar initially from caregiver treatment. Caregivers and cultures help...
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From Words to Worldview: Framing Narrative Genres
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 363–391.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Michael Sinding This article draws together overlapping cognitive analyses of political thought, emotion, and language and shows how they can be supplemented with literary analyses of genre to illuminate the workings of the French Revolution debate of 1790s Britain. It focuses on enriching George...
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Why We Care about (Non) fictional Places: Empathy, Character, and Narrative Environment
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 559–577.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and empathetic emotions for an actual environment—the Appalachian Mountains—that is wounded and scarred. I argue that the novel’s protagonists allow readers to imaginatively experience what it is like to love an environment and then witness its destruction by mountaintop removal mining. Pancake’s decision...
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The Interface between Fiction and Life: Patterns of Identification in Reading Autobiographies
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
... different objects of identification and from different kinds of cognitive and emotional effects. Three major results are presented and discussed. One outcome was the difference in autobiographical style between the two earliest periods of life(childhood and adolescence) and the last, most recent period...
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“I'll Never Have a Clown in My House” — Why Movie Horror Lives On
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 283–304.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to the time of the study. These consequences attest to the enduring power of emotional memory even when the viewer is aware that the response is to a large extent irrational. Possible reasons for these lingering effects are discussed. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004...
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Archival Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Oral Testimony
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 311–330.
Published: 01 June 2006
... phenomenal experience—vivid perceptual images, deeply felt emotions, and bodily sensations—which are then integrated into episodic narratives, creating memory's second level. The core memories of atrocity are extraordinarily persistent—recent memories do not weaken or conceal them, and time does not diminish...
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The Geometrical Method in Spinoza's Ethics
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 443–474.
Published: 01 September 2007
... circle of theologically radical yet devout friends, and others intellectually similar to them, of the truth of his philosophy by beginning with Cartesian principles they would accept. Finally, I argue that certain nongeometrical portions of the Ethics are directed at the emotions of these readers. ©...
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