Title: Emotions Through Literature
Description: "Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources. With a specific focus on literary narrative, including the works of figures such as Dante, Austen, Manzoni and Tolstoy and Kundera, the author draws out the capacity of literary works to describe and represent both the external aspects of social relations and the inner motivations of the involved actors. An interdisciplinary study that combines sociology, narratology, philosophy, historical analysis and literary criticism, Emotions through Literature invites us to re-think the role of emotions in sociological analysis, employing literary narratives to give plausible intellectual responses to the double nature of emotions, their being both individual and sociale." --
Subjects: Emotions in literature, Emotions, Self-management (psychology), Fiction, history and criticism, Social aspects, Fiction, History and criticism, Gestion de soi, Roman, Aspect social, Histoire et critique, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 17.80 literary theory: general