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How can we experience real emotions when viewing a movie or reading a novel or watching a play when we know the characters whose actions have this effect on us
The Paradoxes of Art
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Authors: Alan Paskow
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they are able to emotionally affect us. H
The Philosophy of Horror
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Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative struct
The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox
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The notion of paradox dates back to ancient philosophy, yet only recently have scholars started to explore this idea in organizational phenomena. Two decades ag
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific