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On Being Moved by Anna Karenina and Anna Karenina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Barrie Paskins
Affiliation:
University of London King's College

Abstract

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Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1977

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References

1 Radford, C. and Weston, M., ‘How can we be moved by the fate of Anna Karenina?’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 49 (1975). 6793.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 A question to anyone disposed both to assert that works of art are important in the education of the emotions and to deny that our emotions towards fictional characters are directed towards those real people, if any, who are in essentially the same situation: what part is played in emotional development by the discovery that one has been lavishing one's pity, affection, delight, etc., on characters which are essentially unreal, artificial, merely contrived?