The paradox of fiction: the rationality of our emotional responses to works of fiction

This paper seeks to explore the paradox of fiction, or more precisely, the paradox of why we are able to genuinely emotionally respond to characters, objects and situations in works of fiction. I argue that the paradox can be resolved by refining the second premise, asserting that we can have genuin...

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Main Author: Mathinivedha d/o Neviliappan
Other Authors: Christina Chuang
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165649
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English