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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: discouraging metaphors -- The bodily and cultural roots of emotion metaphors -- Wallowing in self-pity -- The sound and smell of suffering -- Making suffering visible -- Detached and circling: metaphors for the emotions of women scorned -- Conclusion: metaphors matter in emotion regulation |
| Summary |
Banned Emotions, written by neuroscientist-turned-literary scholar Laura Otis, draws on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology to challenge popular attempts to suppress certain emotions. Examining works by Dante, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Forster, and Woolf in parallel with Bridesmaids, Fatal Attraction, and Who Moved My Cheese?, Otis traces pervasive patterns in the ways emotions are represented that can make people so ashamed of their feelings, they may stifle emotions they need to work through. She argues that emotion regulation is a political as well as a biological issue, af |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and emotions.
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Emotions in literature.
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Emotions in art.
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Metaphor.
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Metaphor
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metaphor.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Emotions in art
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Emotions in literature
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Language and emotions
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Metaphor
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Emocions.
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Control (Psicologia)
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Neurociència afectiva.
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| Genre/Form |
Llibres electrònics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190698911 |
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0190698918 |
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0190698934 |
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9780190698935 |
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