Benjamin Gittel

List of John Benjamins publications for which Benjamin Gittel plays a role.

Article

Gittel, Benjamin, Robert Deutschländer and Martin Hecht 2016 Conveying moods and knowledge-what-it-is-like through lyric poetry: An empirical study of authors’ intentions and readers’ responsesTransdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy, Sopčák, Paul, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann (eds.), pp. 131–163 | Article
A very influential idea in western aesthetics is that poems convey multifaceted affective states (moods). This interdisciplinary study compares the moods aroused by the poems with the moods the reader thinks the poem expresses. Further, aroused and expressed mood are compared to the mood the… read more