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Friday, October 10, 2008
Manifesto: Literary Reading and Emotion
Posted by Bill Benzon on 10/10/08 at 04:34 PM
In mid-July of this year the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts hosted a conference of Literary Reading and Emotion. It was proposed by David S. Miall, Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada, with the following in attendance: Jan Auracher (Language and Literature) and Willie van Peer (Intercultural Hermeneutics) from the University of Munich, Germany; Sally Banes, Emerita Professor in Theater and Dance, and Ellen Dissanayake (Music) from the University of Washington, USA; Noël Carroll (Philosophy) from Temple University, Philadelphia and CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA; Keith Oatley (Human Development and Applied Psychology) from the University of Toronto, Canada; Reuven Tsur (Hebrew Literature and Literary Theory) from the University of Tel Aviv, Israel; along with Donald and Margaret Freeman (MICA directors) and Evelina Simanonyte (Colby-Sawyer College, New Hampshire, USA).
The group has now issued a brief manifesto (available here, with commments, and here), which includes these two (of six) declarations:
2. We discern a need to shift focus from the interpretative preoccupation of current approaches to the experience of literature and the arts, which includes the need to study their emotional aspects.
3. We propose a new interdisciplinary approach that integrates the social and biological sciences with the humanities. This proposed integration implies the readiness to become actively involved with the methodology of non-humanistic disciplines, including the development of philosophical and empirical research methodologies.
"the need to study their emotional aspects.”
Great.
“empirical research methodologies”
Whatever.
“This proposed integration implies the readiness to become actively...”
Sarah Palin.
I am very intrigued with your articultion in respect of feelings with and while reading is what I like to call it. I have been doing my own research on this topic and firmly acknowledge the importance of a person’s state of emotion while reading.
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