A taxonomy of the emotions of literary response and a theory of identification in fictional narrative

摘要: A taxonomy of emotions literary response is presented. Some occur as readers confront a text: they depend on curiosity new material assimilated to schemata, or dishabituation schemata accommodate. Further modes emotion arise if enter the world story: writer represents eliciting patterns and reader responds with sympathy story characters face these patterns, from personal memories emotion, by identification characters' goals plans. Based cognitive theory criticism, in fictional literature presented, derived Aristotle's concept mimesis. The usual translations, ‘imitation’ ‘representation’, are misleading: mimesis means something closer ‘simulation’, computers. Fictional simulations run people's minds. For them successfully (a) adopt character's use their own planning procedures connect actions together meaningfully, (b) form mental models imagined worlds, (c) receive speech acts addressed writer, (d) integrate disparate elements create unified experience. In providing materials for functions, great writers allow respond creatively, feel moved emotionally, understand within themselves some relations between emotions, sometimes undergo change.