Narrative Rationality Versus Narrative Emotion
The narrative rationality and the narrative emotion are complementary within narrative theory. The rationality approach to narratives works through the lens of narrative effectiveness in conveying the story, as well as its consequent social implications. The narrative emotion otherwise puts under scrutiny the emotions stirred up in reaction to fiction and thus analyses the purpose of narrative through its very reception. Narrative emotion studies how "emoting by proxy" characterizes the experience of attending to a narrative.
Narrative emotion is a recent trend of narrative theory:
"It is only with the advent of modern aesthetics that emotion could be valued as a proper object of study."
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