caa a22 4500 445301872 CHVBK 20180317142600.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12124-009-9112-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12124-009-9112-0 Johansen Jørgen University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark aut Feelings in Literature [Elektronische Daten] [Jørgen Johansen] In this article it is argued that feelings are all important to the function of literature. In contradiction to music that is concerned with the inwardness of humankind, literature has, because of language, the capacity to create fictional worlds that in many respects are similar to and related to the life world within which we live. One of the most important reasons for our emotional engagement in literature is our empathy with others and our constant imagining and hypothesizing on possible developments in our interactions with them. Hence, we understand and engage ourselves in fictional worlds. It is further claimed and exemplified, how poetic texts are very good at rhetorically engage and manipulate our feelings. Finally, with reference to the important work of Ellen Dissanayake, it is pointed out that the first kind of communication in which we engage, that between mother and infant, is a kind of speech that positively engages the infant in a dialogue with the mother by means of poetic devices. The Author(s), 2010 Feelings nationallicence Literature nationallicence Music nationallicence Mimesis nationallicence Inwardness nationallicence Evolution nationallicence Semiotics nationallicence Communication nationallicence Empathy nationallicence Prediction nationallicence Hypothesis-making nationallicence Imagination nationallicence Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/3(2010-09-01), 185-196 1932-4502 44:3<185 2010 44 12124 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-009-9112-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-009-9112-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johansen Jørgen University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/3(2010-09-01), 185-196 1932-4502 44:3<185 2010 44 12124 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer