Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint
Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
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Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint: Mapping a not so New, not so Small Territory
Dedalus 21 (2017), pp. 11-18. Download PDF
A comparative, intermedial and transdisciplinary approach to the study of emotions has enabled new and productive insights into literary and artistic objects. These recent developments are a by-product of influential contributions such as (i) António Damásio’s groundbreaking work on the pivotal role emotions play in the development of cognitive processes, namely consciousness and memory; (ii) the work of Peter Goldie (The Emotions. A Philosophical Exploration, 2000), who ascribed a narrative structure to the emotional experience; and (iii) Ronald de Sousa (The Rationality of Emotions, 1987), who coined the concept of “paradigm scenarios” to describe the social and cultural nature of emotions. Following these innovative trends, the field of the History of Emotions has shown how these transcend the mere individual dimension of a strictly psychological phenomenon and assume social significance, being codified, taught and regulated through several types of discourse, the literary included (e.g. William M. Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling. A Framework for the History of Emotions, 2001; Simone Winko, Kodierte Gefühle, 2003; Ute Frevert, Emotions in History – Lost and Found, 2011).