Negative Emotions in the Reception of Fictional Narratives / / edited by Márta Horváth, Gábor Simon.

• TeilnehmendeR: Horváth, Márta,; Simon, Gábor,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn : : Brill :, mentis,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) :; illustrations (some color)

"An important aspect of narrative motivation is emotional understanding. The sequence of events completes an emotional cadence in the audience, which makes narratives meaningful for them. In this regard, negative emotions have an outstanding role. Based on general emotion-theories, positive emotions support approaching action tendencies while negative emotions endorse distancing and avoiding. However, this notion is not valid for aesthetic reception, because as research shows, aesthetic objects eliciting negative emotions greatly attract recipients and increase the intensity of the aesthetic experience. In aesthetic experience, it seems, negative emotions interweave with pleasure; moreover, they can be a source of pleasure. The studies of this volume discuss the role of negative emotions in the reception of fictional narratives with special interest to fear and disgust."-- Publisher's description.

Table of Contents

Part I Fear -- The Pleasure of Fear: The Roller-Coaster Ride : Revisiting the "paradox of horror" / András Bálint Kovács -- Felt versus Perceived Emotions : Fear and Empathy While Reading Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" / Márta Horváth -- Fear and Agency in Survival Horror / Judit Szabó -- The Psychological Dilemmas of Death: Anxiety Rationalized : Metaphors of Vision in François de La Rochefoucauld's Death-Related Writings / Csenge E. Aradi -- Part II Disgust and Pain -- From Aversive Look to "The Loathsome Depths of Disgust" : A Corpus-Assisted Investigation of the Verbal Representation of Disgust in Hungarian / Gábor Simon -- Presented and Felt Negative Emotions in Kafka's Die Verwandlung and During Reading the Novella : An Interpretation / Erzsébet Szabó -- Choreographies of Pain : Action Film and the Limits of Somatic Empathy / Daniel Kulle -- Saga Literacy : A Cognitive Approach to the Teaching of Saga Literature with Special Emphasis on Negative Emotions / Zsófia Domsa -- Part III Non-Basic Negative Emotions -- Moral Reasoning and Empathic Distress : Moral Dilemma in Yorgos Lanthimos' Film The Killing of a Sacred Deer / Judit Szabó -- "I Am Not Talking About Insomnia." -- Dissociation and the Representation of Emotions in Haruki Murakami's "Sleep" / Lilla Farmasi.