Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- The Pleasure of Fear: The Roller-Coaster Ride / András Bálint Kovács -- Felt versus Perceived Emotions / Márta Horváth -- Fear and Agency in Survival Horror / Judit Szabó -- The Psychological Dilemmas of Death: Anxiety Rationalized / Csenge E. Aradi -- From Aversive Look to “The Loathsome Depths of Disgust” / Gábor Simon -- Presented and Felt Negative Emotions in Kafka’s Die Verwandlung and During Reading the Novella / Erzsébet Szabó -- Choreographies of Pain / Daniel Kulle -- Saga Literacy / Zsófia Domsa -- Moral Reasoning and Empathic Distress / Judit Szabó -- “I Am Not Talking About Insomnia.” / Lilla Farmasi -- List of Contributors -- Index.

An important aspect of narrative motivation is emotional understanding. The sequence of events completes an emotional cadence in the audience, which makes narratives meaningful for them. In this regard, negative emotions have an outstanding role. Based on general emotion-theories, positive emotions support approaching action tendencies while negative emotions endorse distancing and avoiding. However, this notion is not valid for aesthetic reception, because as research shows, aesthetic objects eliciting negative emotions greatly attract recipients and increase the intensity of the aesthetic experience. In aesthetic experience, it seems, negative emotions interweave with pleasure; moreover, they can be a source of pleasure. The studies of this volume discuss the role of negative emotions in the reception of fictional narratives with special interest to fear and disgust.

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