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- Title: Affective Dimensions in Don Quijote (1).
- Author : Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 207 KB
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My intention here is to sketch out an approach to studying emotion in Don Quijote. As it turns out, only the poorest critical language is available to us for talking about emotion in literature, and there is virtually no agreement as to what conceptual guidelines to use. But there does seem to be a growing awareness that this is a domain worth exploring. Imagine for a moment what literature (of any genre or epoch) would be like if it were deprived of emotion. Lifeless might be one way to describe it: without emotion literature would simply not exist. Since Antiquity the vital importance of the affective dimension of literature and the other arts has most often been recognized, whether enthusiastically or begrudgingly. Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Quintilian, and Longinus all developed poetic or rhetorical theories very much oriented towards emotion. Most of the major Western philosophers have been deeply concerned with the affects or emotions or passions, and, after a brief lull, philosophy of the past few decades has again taken up this issue. Since about 1980, studies on emotion have burgeoned across the spectrum from the biological to the social sciences and humanities, with hundreds of books appearing on all aspects of the subject, as can be seen, for example, from the long lists of volumes on emotion published by the Cambridge and Oxford university presses.
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