A slightly more practical (and modest) attempt to demonstrate causality was undertaken by David Kidd and Emanuele Castano; in their experiments, volunteers were randomly assigned to read a single text of either literary fiction, popular genre fiction, or nonfiction before taking a test of their ability to identify complex emotions based on ...
In a study led by Raymond Mar, voracious readers of fiction were better than lighter consumers of fiction at making nuanced social judgments based on limited information — for example ...
The article doesn't say characters in ancientfictiondoesn't have feelings, it says "medieval authors represented characters' mental states mainly through their direct speech and gestures" - rather than say through internal monologue.This is also true about the Illiad. However the article continues "Moreover, emotions were usually predictable reactions to external actions or events ...
WhyDoesn'tAncientFictionTalkAboutFeelings? Perhaps people living in medieval societies were less preoccupied with the intricacies of other minds, simply because they didn't have to be. When people's choices were constrained and their actions could be predicted based on their social roles, there was less reason to be attuned to the ...
ancientfeelings 18 October 2018 # Whydoesn'tancientfictiontalkaboutfeelings? "I'd often wondered," says Julie Sedivy, "when reading older texts: Weren't people back then interested in what characters thought and felt?" Let me put this as politely as I can: What the hell are you talking about?. If you read the Iliad you'd know how Achilles felt when Agamemnon took his ...
In her essay, "WhyDoesn'tAncientFictionTalkAboutFeelings?" she burrows into the evolution of literature and how its shift to the interior life of the mind has reflected the expanding complexities of society. In the following interview, from her home in Calgary, Sedivy explains how language both enraptures and deceives.