Do we weep for Cordelia?

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2003

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 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4314/sajpem.v22i3.31374
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Galgut, Elisa
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South African Journal of Philosophy

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Taylor & Francis

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University of Cape Town

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Department of Philosophy
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Faculty of Humanities
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Abstract
Much of the contemporary debate concerning the nature and role of fictive emotions has argued that we do feel garden-variety emotions for fictional characters; the puzzle has been to account for this, given our knowledge of their fictional status. In this paper I argue that many of the emotional responses we have towards fictional characters are nothing like the emotions we feel in ordinary life. The implications for our engagement with literary fictions are subsequently examined.
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Galgut, E. (2003). Do we weep for Cordelia? South African Journal of Philosophy, 22(3), 268-276.

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