Assertion: artist's work | /r/CapableOf | elicit negative emotions
Facets:
value: in audiences
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Hume’s theory is meant to account for the possibility of deriving pleasure from an engagement with fictional works eliciting negative emotions.
text: Susan Feagin (1983), another proponent of the compensatory solution, argues that we are motivated to engage with works of fiction that elicit negative emotions, not because the works themselves elicit pleasant experiences in greater proportion, but because of certain responses that we have towards the negative emotions themselves.
text: The pluralist solution, notably, not only explains why we are motivated to engage with works of fiction that elicit negative emotions in audiences, it also seems to have the resources to provide an explanation for why we are motivated to pursue any activity that tends to elicit negative emotions.