The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the emotional experience of sorrow, as a condition of the intense pain, is transformed, or excluded in literature education. In order to do it, I researched the influence of educational judgement on lite...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the emotional experience of sorrow, as a condition of the intense pain, is transformed, or excluded in literature education. In order to do it, I researched the influence of educational judgement on literary emotional experience in the present day. Sadness is the universal emotion. But not always sadness is to be accepted as a literary emotional experience. I proved it by argument on the frame of emotional experience of sadness in our cultural environment. This frame is presumed to be consisted of the two bi-opposite elements, one to be approved in culture and another treated as natural. My concern was the hierarchal relation of these elements. I looked at that some emotions of sadness―mercy, sympathy, `Han(恨)`, and so forth―functioned as literary emotional experience, but painful sorrow was not accepted. Because literary judgement, that the poetry has to keep organic unification of language, expeled that emotional condition from literary emotional experience. And educational judgement also has an effect on as follows: first, the emotion of poetry has to reach the state of spiritual maturity. Second, emotional experience of the poetry has to keep the peace of mind. And Third, the emotion put into language tends to be more complex one. These judgements seem to have an effect on choice of poetry and competition of theories at the same time.