ENGL 319 Lecture 13: November 8th - ENGL 319
28 Mar 2018
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Suspense: a commonplace type of experience in connection to things like artworks. Question of what suspense might have to do with the imagination. The experience of suspense has everything to do with the imagination according to carroll. The paradox of recidivism suspense-generating events must be uncertain to audiences. already engaged knowingly with f. of the relevant outcomes. In fact, audiences experience suspense in response to f, even when they have. If a fiction f is experienced with suspense by an audience, then the outcome of the. But if audiences have already seen, read, or heard f, then they know and are certain. Generic suspense: the kind of suspense that we experience when engaging with a certain form of narrative fiction. Suspense as an emotional response to fiction is: An emotional concomitant to the narration of a course of events. Which course of events points to two logically opposed outcomes.
