Responding Emotionally to Fictions
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (3):269-284 (2009)
| Abstract | It is widely held that there is a paradox in the fact that we respond emotionally to characters, situations, or events that we know to be fictional, or in other words, when they do not exist. To take a familiar example. | |||||||||
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