Literary Emotion is an aesthetic emotion that arises from a reader’s imaginative and cognitively mediated engagement with a literary work as such, being directed toward its fictional events, characters, narrative, and stylistic or formal properties rather than toward the reader’s immediate practical circumstances.
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Engaging characters: fiction, emotion, and the cinema
Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 768 citations
Foregrounding, defamiliarization, and affect: Response to literary stories
David S. Miall, Don Kuiken · Poetics · 1994 · 489 citations
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University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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17 publications
1.7K citations
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
11 h-index
26 publications
2.1K citations
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
8 h-index
13 publications
2.2K citations
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
8 h-index
12 publications
816 citations
Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin
Berlin, Germany
4 h-index
4 publications
398 citations
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Canada
4 h-index
5 publications
154 citations
New York University
New York, United States
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5 publications
281 citations
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
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4 publications
303 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 48 publications · 5.6K citations
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- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
19 publications · 728 citations
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- Poetics
13 publications · 2.2K citations
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- The Modern Language Review
14 publications · 475 citations
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- The British Journal of Aesthetics
11 publications · 377 citations
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