Emotional Identification is a theoretical construct in literary emotion studies that denotes the cognitive-affective process through which a reader subjectively assumes the emotional perspective of a fictional character, distinguished from mere empathy or sympathy by its emphasis on the transient merging of the reader’s emotive state with that of the narrative agent.
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Passionate views: film, cognition, and emotion
Carl Plantinga · Choice Reviews Online · 1999 · 363 citations
The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
Richard Morán · The Philosophical Review · 1994 · 352 citations · Full text
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Université du Québec à Montréal
Montreal, Canada
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University College London
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Queens College, CUNY
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Instituto Neurológico de Colombia
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Bournemouth University
Poole, United Kingdom
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