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 |
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Other Authors: | Christina Chuang |
Format: | Final Year Project |
Language: | English |
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Nanyang Technological University
2023
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165649 |
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