Deeper than Reason Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art (Paperback)

Jenefer Robinson takes the insights of modern scientific research on the emotions and uses them to illuminate questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Laying out a theory of emotion supported by the best evidence from current empirical work, she examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the emotions and how they work, aswell as anyone engaged with the arts and aesthetics.

I. What are Emotions and How do they Operate?
1: Emotions as Judgements
2: Boiling of the Blood
3: Emotion as Process
II. Emotion in Literature
4: The Importance of Being Emotional
5: Puzzles and Paradoxes
6: A Sentimental Education
7: Formal Devices as Coping Mechanisms
III. Expressing Emotions in the Arts
8: Pouring Forth the Soul
9: A New Romantic Theory of Expression
IV. Music and the Emotions
10: Emotional Expression in Music
11: The Expression of Emotion in Instrumental Music
12: Listening with Emotion: how our emotions help us to understand music
13: Feeling the Music
14: Epilogue