Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Figures XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Ambivalent Affects in Experimental Psychology 29
7. Mixed Emotions in Emotion Communication: A Chimera in my Brain 45
8. Mixed Emotions and the Climate Crisis in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction 63
9. Ubi sunt? On the Varieties and Mixed Pleasures of Poignancy 79
10. Being of Two Minds in Eleventh-Century China: Affective Bimodality in Guo Xi and Su Shi 97
11. Explaining (Away?) Conflicting Emotions: A View from Sanskrit Aesthetic Phenomenology 115
12. Odi et Amo: On Some Ancient Readings of Mixed Affect in Catullus 135
13. Bittersweet History: Cicero on Mixed Affect in Experiencing Literature 155
14. Ambivalent Feelings towards the Lupercalia: Discussing Civilisation in Republican and Early Imperial Rome 171
15. Bibliography 187
16. List of Contributors 205
17. Index 207