an evaluation of the situation now evolving in the story. The concept of captures the rasa first aspect, and points to its pervasive nature as it comes to imbue and color all aspects of a given fiction (hence Frijda’s Laws); but it fails to account for the dynamic process by which the emerges, that is, how feelings gain their generalizing power, and the rasa power to recontextualize and modify other feelings. The reading of fiction remains a paradoxical experience, half in our real world of everyday life and half outside it. But this paradox seems due directly to the double role of feelings, being in themselves timeless and indifferent to reality, yet within a literary context capable of being the focus of critical awareness and subject to the modifying power of new feelings. References Birkerts, S. 1994. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. New York: Fawcett Columbine. Coleridge, S. T. 1983. 2 vols., J. Engell and W. J. Bate (eds). Biographia Literaria, London: Routledge. Coleridge, S. T. 1957-2002. 5 vols., K. Coburn (ed). London: Routledge. The Notebooks. Frijda, N. 2007. Mahwah, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum. The Laws of Emotion. Gerrig, R. J. 1993. New Haven: Yale University Press. Experiencing Narrative Worlds. Glucksberg, S., and Keysar, B. 1990. Understanding metaphorical comparisons: Beyond similarity. 97: 3-18. Psychological Review Gnoli, R. 1968. 2nd ed. The Aesthetic Experience According to Abhinavagupta, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Vol. LXII. India, Varanasi-1. Hanson, C. 1985. Basingstoke, UK: Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980. Macmillan. Mansfield, K. 1945. Wrong House.” In 675-678. London: Collected Stories, “The Constable. (Story first published in 1919.) Mansfield, K. 1984. 4 vols., V. O'Sullivan and M. Scott (eds). The Collected Letters, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Miall, D. S. 2001. Sounds of contrast: An empirical approach to phonemic iconicity. 29: 55-70. Poetics
an evaluation of the situation now evolving in the story. The concept of rasa captures the first aspect, and points to its pervasive nature as it comes to imbue and color all aspects of a given fiction (hence Frijda’s Laws); but it fails to account for the dynamic process by which the rasa emerges, that is, how feelings gain their generalizing power, and the power to recontextualize and modify other feelings. The reading of fiction remains a paradoxical experience, half in our real world of everyday life and half outside it. But this paradox seems due directly to the double role of feelings, being in themselves timeless and indifferent to reality, yet within a literary context capable of being the focus of critical awareness and subject to the modifying power of new feelings. References Birkerts, S. 1994. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. New York: Fawcett Columbine. Coleridge, S. T. 1983. Biographia Literaria, 2 vols., J. Engell and W. J. Bate (eds). London: Routledge. Coleridge, S. T. 1957-2002. The Notebooks. 5 vols., K. Coburn (ed). London: Routledge. Frijda, N. 2007. The Laws of Emotion. Mahwah, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum. Gerrig, R. J. 1993. Experiencing Narrative Worlds. New Haven: Yale University Press. Glucksberg, S., and Keysar, B. 1990. Understanding metaphorical comparisons: Beyond similarity. Psychological Review 97: 3-18. Gnoli, R. 1968. The Aesthetic Experience According to Abhinavagupta, 2nd ed. Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Vol. LXII. India, Varanasi-1. Hanson, C. 1985. Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan. Mansfield, K. 1945. “The Wrong House.” In Collected Stories, 675-678. London: Constable. (Story first published in 1919.) Mansfield, K. 1984. The Collected Letters, 4 vols., V. O'Sullivan and M. Scott (eds). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Miall, D. S. 2001. Sounds of contrast: An empirical approach to phonemic iconicity. Poetics 29: 55-70.
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