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Author Robinson, Jenefer.

Title Deeper than reason : emotion and its role in literature, music, and art / Jenefer Robinson
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 500 pages) : illustrations, music
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
Summary Jenefer Robinson uses modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions to study our emotional involvement with the arts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-486) and index
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Subject Personality and creative ability.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Psychological aspects
Art appreciation -- Psychological aspects
Musical perception.
Emotions in art.
Emotions in literature.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Emotions in music.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Emotions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Emotions in music
Art appreciation -- Psychological aspects
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Psychological aspects
Emotions in art
Emotions in literature
Music -- Psychological aspects
Musical perception
Personality and creative ability
Esthetica.
Emoties.
Kunst.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0199263655
9780199263653
9780191532511
0191532517
9780191603211
019160321X