Empathy and the NovelOxford University Press, 19.04.2007 - 274 Seiten Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. Empathy robustly enters into affective responses to fiction, yet its role in shaping the behavior of emotional readers has been debated for three centuries. Keen surveys these debates and illustrates the techniques that invite empathetic response. She argues that the perception of fictiveness increases the likelihood of readers' empathy in part by releasing them from the guarded responses necessitated by the demands of real others. Narrative empathy is a strategy and subject of contemporary novelists from around the world, writers who tacitly endorse the potential universality of human emotions when they call upon their readers' empathy. If narrative empathy is to be taken seriously, Keen suggests, then women's reading and responses to popular fiction occupy a central position in literary inquiry, and cognitive literary studies should extend its range beyond canonical novels. In short, Keen's study extends the playing field for literature practitioners, causing it to resemble more closely that wide open landscape inhabited by readers. |
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... authors' empathy certainly contributes to the emotional resonance of fiction, its success in the marketplace, and its characterimproving reputation. My discussion in chapter 1 of empathy as psychologists understand it and my historical ...
... authors' empathy certainly contributes to the emotional resonance of fiction, its success in the marketplace, and its characterimproving reputation. My discussion in chapter 1 of empathy as psychologists understand it and my historical ...
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... authors in crafting fictional worlds play a role in inviting (or retarding) readers' empathic responses. This means that for some readers, the author's use of the formulaic conventions of a thriller or a romance novel would increase ...
... authors in crafting fictional worlds play a role in inviting (or retarding) readers' empathic responses. This means that for some readers, the author's use of the formulaic conventions of a thriller or a romance novel would increase ...
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... author's perspective is simply wrong, while strong concord in authors' empathy and readers' empathy can be a motivating force to move beyond literary response to prosocial action. Some scholars of discourse processing believe that ...
... author's perspective is simply wrong, while strong concord in authors' empathy and readers' empathy can be a motivating force to move beyond literary response to prosocial action. Some scholars of discourse processing believe that ...
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... authors, readers, editors, teachers, and librarians respond to the call to action with heartfelt anecdotes of the importance of reading in their lives (McLemee, “Literary Reading” A1, A16). Personal testimony reveals the widespread ...
... authors, readers, editors, teachers, and librarians respond to the call to action with heartfelt anecdotes of the importance of reading in their lives (McLemee, “Literary Reading” A1, A16). Personal testimony reveals the widespread ...
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... Authors' Empathy”). Chapter 4, “Empathy in the Marketplace,” begins with a cautious assessment of the claim that reading novels extends the empathetic circle. Do empathetic novels sell better in the world fiction market because they ...
... Authors' Empathy”). Chapter 4, “Empathy in the Marketplace,” begins with a cautious assessment of the claim that reading novels extends the empathetic circle. Do empathetic novels sell better in the world fiction market because they ...
Inhalt
The Literary Career of Empathy | |
Readers Empathy | |
Empathy in the Marketplace | |
Authors Empathy | |
Contesting Empathy | |
A Collection of Hypotheses about Narrative Empathy | |
Works Cited | |
Index | |
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Empathy and the Novel Broadus Professor of English Suzanne Keen,Suzanne Keen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
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