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dc.contributor.advisorGaut, Berys Nigel
dc.contributor.advisorWheeler, Michael
dc.contributor.authorStudt, Eric Michael
dc.coverage.spatial225en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-24T12:24:49Z
dc.date.available2023-02-24T12:24:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27056
dc.description.abstractThis thesis takes the work of psychologists James Russell and Lisa Feldman Barrett on core affect and applies it to engagement with narrative. In the first part, I situate core affect in the philosophy of emotion and, drawing on the predictive-processing model of cognition, I explore valence and arousal, the two elements of core affect. The second part relies on Lawrence Barsalou’s research on situated conceptualisation to build a bridge from core affect in philosophy and psychology to affective engagement with narrative. Firstly, I argue that narratives present situated conceptualisations that readers access via their own conceptual frameworks. Secondly, I show that the way that conceptualisations are situated in the narrative can in part explain why readers affectively respond to narratives in the ways that they do. Thirdly, building on the work of R.G. Collingwood and Jenefer Robinson, I explore what it means for some narratives to express affect. In short, this thesis brings an increasingly influential theory of emotion, namely the psychological construction view of emotion, which holds that emotions are constructed out of core affect and emotion concepts, into conversation with models of affective engagement with narrative in aesthetics and offers a framework for thinking about readers’ affective responses to narratives.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectNarrativeen_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.subjectPredictive processingen_US
dc.subjectValenceen_US
dc.subjectArousalen_US
dc.subjectAffecten_US
dc.subjectSituated conceptualisationen_US
dc.subjectConstructionist theory of emotionen_US
dc.subjectCore affecten_US
dc.subjectExpressivismen_US
dc.subjectSimulation theoryen_US
dc.subjectAestheticsen_US
dc.subjectAttentionen_US
dc.subject.lccB815.S8
dc.subject.lcshEmotions--Philosophyen
dc.titleAffective engagement with narrativeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.publisher.departmentSaint Andrews and Stirling Graduate Programme in Philosophyen_US
dc.rights.embargodate2028-02-02
dc.rights.embargoreasonThesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Restricted until 2nd February 2028en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/sta/301


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