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Mixed Feelings
An Interdisciplinary Phenomenology. Ancient Emotions V
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About this book
'Affective valence' typically refers to the way an affective state feels, i.e. the quality of the (dis)pleasure we subjectively experience: fear usually feels unpleasant, while joy feels good. Yet sometimes affective experience feels 'bittersweet', i.e. good and bad at the same time, as when we enjoy being scared on the roller coaster or being sad when reading a heart-rending novel. In these situations, mixed affect is experienced as a blended state in which positive and negative aspects cannot be prised apart in any meaningful way. But mixed affect can also arise from conflicting emotions (e.g when we desire something that we also wish to avoid), from ambivalence (e.g. when we are of two minds about something), and more. Taking a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective, this volume aims to enrich our understanding of the phenomenology of mixed affective experiences. It explores narrative representations of mixed emotions in historical and literary works in both Western and Eastern traditions, as well as the theorization of such experiences in these traditions. It will be of interest to students and scholars of literature (especially classical Chinese, Greek, Indian, and Latin), history of emotions, and philosophy.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Ambivalent Affects in Experimental Psychology
- Mixed Emotions in Emotion Communication: A Chimera in my Brain
- Mixed Emotions and the Climate Crisis in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
- Ubi sunt? On the Varieties and Mixed Pleasures of Poignancy
- Being of Two Minds in Eleventh-Century China: Affective Bimodality in Guo Xi and Su Shi
- Explaining (Away?) Conflicting Emotions: A View from Sanskrit Aesthetic Phenomenology
- Odi et Amo: On Some Ancient Readings of Mixed Affect in Catullus
- Bittersweet History: Cicero on Mixed Affect in Experiencing Literature
- Ambivalent Feelings towards the Lupercalia: Discussing Civilisation in Republican and Early Imperial Rome
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index