Mixed Feelings by Douglas Cairns
'Affective valence' typically refers to the way an affective state feels, i.e. the quality of the (dis)pleasure we subjectively experience: fear usually feels unpleasant, while joy feels good. Yet sometimes affective experience feels 'bittersweet', i.e. good and bad at the same time, as when we enjoy being scared on the roller coaster or being sad when reading a heart-rending novel. In these situations, mixed affect is experienced as a blended state in which positive and negative aspects cannot be prised apart in any meaningful way. But mixed affect can also arise from conflicting emotions (e.g when we desire something that we also wish to avoid), from ambivalence (e.g. when we are of two minds about something), and more. Taking a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective, this volume aims to enrich our understanding of the phenomenology of mixed affective experiences. It explores narrative representations of mixed emotions in historical and literary works in both Western and Eastern traditions, as well as the theorization of such experiences in these traditions. It will be of interest to students and scholars of literature (especially classical Chinese, Greek, Indian, and Latin), history of emotions, and philosophy.-
Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens
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Ancient Historians on the Nature of War
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Studies on Greek Gods and Heroes
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Monstrum in Fabula
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Isocrates ›Peri tou zeugous‹
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Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander
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Apollonius’ ›Argonautica‹ and the Poetics of Controversy
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The Concept of Crisis in Antiquity
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No More Heroes
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Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessalonike
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Narratives of the Roman Empire
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The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past
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Departing the Polis
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Wonder and the Marvelous in Hellenistic Literature
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Page and Stage
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Labor Imperfectus
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›res vera, res ficta‹: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography
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Dynamics Of Marginality
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Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity
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The Poetics of Greek Ekphrasis
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Ovid’s Terence
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Horatian Readings: Poetic and Literary Texture
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Roman Readings: Latin Poetry from Lucretius to Ovid
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The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry
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Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature
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Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature
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Seneca Philosophus
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Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography
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The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age
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Roman Drama and its Contexts
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Narratology and Interpretation
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Tereus Through the Ages
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Parentheses of Reception
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Metaphors of the Ancient World
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Chronology and History of the Attic Theatre
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Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity
Douglas Cairns, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland; Pia Campeggiani, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783111390543 |
| ISBN 10 | 3111390543 |
| Title | Mixed Feelings |
| Author | Douglas Cairns |
| Series | Trends In Classics - Supplementary Volumes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2025-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
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