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