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Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons is a literary approach to consciousness where Donald Wesling denies that emotion is the scandal or handmaid of reason—rather emotion is the co-creator with reason of human life in the world. Discoveries in neuro-science in the 1990's Decade of the Brain have proven that thinking and feeling are wrapped with each other, and regulate and fulfill each other. Accepting this co-creative equality, we reveal a new role for literature, or a traditional role we’ve repressed: literature as a set of processes in time where we’ve thought feeling through stories about the lives of imaginary persons. We need these stories in order to practice emotions for when we return to the world from reading. Donald Wesling argues that to be more accurate in our dealings with stories, we require a grammar of this new recognition, where we build up traditional stylistics by a more careful tracking of emotion-states as these are set into writing. The first half of Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons offers a creative stock-taking of the current state of scholarship on emotion, based on wide reading in several fields. The second half gives three focused studies, rich in examples, of emotion as cognition, as story, and as historical structure of feeling.

Emotions in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Senses and sensation in literature.

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As the first book-length study of the Yongming poets, this book focuses on unraveling the complexity and hybridity of the poetic voices beneath their seemingly ""technical"" pursuit of prosodic innovation.

Chinese poetry --- Sensuality in literature. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- China --- Court and courtiers. --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Sensuality in literature --- S16/0221 --- History and criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Poetry: Han - Sui

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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train" (Oscar Wilde). Literature has always treated the sensational: crime, passion, violence, trauma, catastrophe. It has frequently caused, or been at the centre of scandal, censorship and moral outrage. But literature is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less well understood. It mediates between the sensory world, perception and cognition through rich modes of thought alli...

Senses and sensation in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Émotions --- Sens et sensations --- Dans la littérature. --- Émotions --- Dans la littérature.

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The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England. Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise

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Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats, were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate, and in the connections between sense-perception and aesthetic experience. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond, both in relation to late eighteenth-century human sciences, and in the context of momentous social transformations in the period of the French Revolution. Combining close readings of the poems with interdisciplinary research into the history of the human sciences, Noel Jackson sheds light on Romantic efforts to define how art is experienced in relation to the newly emerging sciences of the mind and shows the continued relevance of these ideas to our own habits of cultural and historical criticism today. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Romanticism, but also to those interested in the intellectual interrelations between literature and science.

Aesthetics in literature --- English poetry --- Literature and science --- Mind and body in literature --- Perception in literature --- Poets, English --- Romanticism --- Senses and sensation in literature --- English poets --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History and criticism --- History --- Aesthetics --- Senses and sensation in architecture. --- Mind and body in literature. --- Perception in literature. --- Aesthetics in literature. --- Architecture --- History and criticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature