Thinking with Your Heart: Literature and the New Cognitive Theories of Emotion

Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention
New Orleans, 2001

Session leader: Laura A. Wadenpfuhl, New Jersey City University


  1. "Emotions in Reading and Their Effects on the Reader," Keith Oatley, University of Toronto.

  2. "Emotion, Action, Utterance: Metacognition in Macbeth," Lalita Pandit, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

  3. "Ghostly Memories: How Literary Works Make Us Feel," Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut, Storrs.


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