11. Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: The Sciences and Humanities Matter as One 1
4. PART I. General and Theoretical Considerations
5. 1. Arts in the Brain; or, What Might Neuroscience Tell Us? 13
6. 2. Narrative as Nourishment 37
7. 3. Narrative Empathy 61
8. 4. The Biolinguistic Turn: Toward a New Semiotics of Film 95
9. 5. Voice and Perception: An Evolutionary Approach to the Basic Functions of Narrative 119
10. 6. Dreaming and Narrative Theory 141
11. PART II. A Selection of New Approaches
12. 7. Cross-Cultural Mind-Reading; or, Coming to Terms with the Ethnic Mother in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior 161
13. 8. Theory of Mind and Michael Fried’s Absorption and Theatricality: Notes toward Cognitive Historicism 179
14. 9. Garden Paths and Ineffable Effects: Abandoning Representation in Literature and Film 205
15. 10. Consciousness, Ethics, and Narrative: Reading Literature in an Age of Torture 227
16. 11. Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth 251
17. Glossary 281
18. Bibliography 285
19. Contributors 313
20. Index 317