Cognition, endorphins, and the literary response to tragedy
| Autor: | Ben Teasdale, Evert van Emde Boas, Jacqueline M. Thompson, Robin I. M. Dunbar, Laurie Maguire, Felix Budelmann, Sophie Duncan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Literature
Literature and Literary Theory business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Cognition 050105 experimental psychology Pleasure 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Aesthetics Tragedy (event) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common |
| Zdroj: | Cambridge Quarterly. 46(3) |
| ISSN: | 1471-6836 0008-199X |
| Popis: | Traditional approaches to the question of why tragedy gives pleasure concentrate on form–reasonably so, as it is a literary question. We approach the question via the audience's somatic responses and consider the role of endorphins. Our article describes an experiment we conducted on audiences who watched the emotionally-wrenching film 'Stuart: A Life Backwards'. The experiment also considered the question of group bonding (the audience's sense of being part of a group increased in step with endorphin release) and the ways in which audience members identified with characters and felt transported by the world of the film. |
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