Introduction: Death and Dying in Comparative Philosophical Perspective

Author(s):  
Timothy D Knepper
Author(s):  
Christoph Klimmt

This comment briefly examines the history of entertainment research in media psychology and welcomes the conceptual innovations in the contribution by Oliver and Bartsch (this issue). Theoretical perspectives for improving and expanding the “appreciation” concept in entertainment psychology are outlined. These refer to more systematic links of appreciation to the psychology of mixed emotions, to positive psychology, and to the psychology of death and dying – in particular, to terror management theory. In addition, methodological challenges are discussed that entertainment research faces when appreciation and the experience of “meaning for life” need to be addressed in empirical studies of media enjoyment.


1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 914-914
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
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2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Barber ◽  
Charity Plaxton-Hennings ◽  
Holli M. H. Eaton ◽  
Sheryn T. Scott
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2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
M. Towsley M. Towsley Cook ◽  
A. A. Young
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2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Squires

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.


1967 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwynn Nettler
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