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(2017) The Palgrave handbook of affect studies and textual criticism, Dordrecht, Springer.
"The history and science of feeling"
Wordsworth's affective poetics, then and now
Mark J. Bruhn
pp. 671-693
This chapter revisits the "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads and related materials in order to (re)assess Wordsworth's affective poetics in terms both of its own literary-historical moment and of our cognitive-neuroscientific one. Drawing upon research in psychology, narratology, and empirical aesthetics, the discussion elaborates the history and science behind a set of related hypotheses, recently proposed by Keith Oatley et al., concerning "the communication of emotion in art": (1) "emotions often are unclear"; (2) "emotions inspire creative expression"; (3) "artistic expression should often take on the form of emotion [or] have the dynamic and thematic properties of an emotion"; and (4) "readers or spectators of art should readily perceive the emotion communicated."
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63303-9_25
Full citation:
Bruhn, M. J. (2017)., "The history and science of feeling": Wordsworth's affective poetics, then and now, in T. Blake (ed.), The Palgrave handbook of affect studies and textual criticism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 671-693.
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