Table of Contents

Introduction: studying narrative, studying emotion; 1. Literary universals; 2. Emotion and suggestion: lexical processes in literary experience; 3. Four hypotheses on emotion and narrative; 4. Writing beyond the ending: a problem of narrative, empathy, and ethics; 5. Extending the theory: emotion prototypes, narrative junctures, and lyric poetry; 6. Testing, revision, and the program of research in narrative universals: Ainu epic and the plot of sacrifice; 7. The structure of stories: some general principles of plot; Afterword: from the emotional nature of narrative to the narrative nature of emotion; Notes.

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'Hogan's work usefully compares non-Europeans and 'Euro-American' conceptions of literary universals.' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory