Oxford University Press

Exploring Emotion in StoriesKeith Oatley is both a novelist and research psychologist. This book is a hybrid text that alternates sections of an original short story with chapters of psychological exploration of the emotions experienced as we read this story, and as we read fiction generally....

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While explaining the rise of the "e;Judeo-Christian"e; arrangement, Kevin Schultz shows how Catholics and Jews used the tri-faith image to force America to confront the challenges of pluralism....

This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book which gathers        together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics.          These highly influential essays are essential reading for debates on the definition        of art, the ontology of art, emotional response to art, expression in art, and...

Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in various genres of popular fiction. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people. Applying the methods of literary criticism, Givens shows how the image of the Mormon as a religious and social `Other' was constructed....