Aesthetic Engagement During Moments of Suffering

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 3:2 (2013)

Editors

Don Kuiken | University of Alberta

Mary Beth Oliver | Pennsylvania State University

[Scientific Study of Literature, 3:2] 2013. v, 153 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.3.2

Table of Contents

The scope of SSOL: A discussion of the boundaries of science and literature David I. Hanauer, Don Kuiken and Frank Hakemulder	169–174
Aesthetic engagement during moments of suffering: A special issue Don Kuiken and Mary Beth Oliver	175–177
The attraction of tragic narrative: Catharsis and other motives Emy Koopman	178–208
“He made her feel the beauty” Readers’ responses to Maurice Blanchot and Virginia Woolf’s treatments of finitude Paul Sopčák	209–239
Effects of loss and trauma on sublime disquietude during literary reading Don Kuiken and Ruby Sharma	240–265
The therapeutic effects of narrative cinema through clarification: Reexamining catharsis Guan Soon Khoo and Mary Beth Oliver	266–293
Aesthetic engagement during moments of suffering Don Kuiken and Mary Beth Oliver	294–321

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Applied linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies