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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... philosophers of virtue ethics, feminist advocates of an ethic of caring, and many defenders of the humanities ... philosopher Martha Nussbaum advocates (Cultivating Humanity 90). Discover compassion through “The Lion and the Mouse” or ...
... philosophers of virtue ethics, feminist advocates of an ethic of caring, and many defenders of the humanities ... philosopher Martha Nussbaum advocates (Cultivating Humanity 90). Discover compassion through “The Lion and the Mouse” or ...
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... philosophers, educators, theologians, librarians, and interested parties such as authors and publishers to connect the experience of empathy, including its literary form, with outcomes of changed attitudes, improved motives, and better ...
... philosophers, educators, theologians, librarians, and interested parties such as authors and publishers to connect the experience of empathy, including its literary form, with outcomes of changed attitudes, improved motives, and better ...
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... philosophers and psychologists, to critical scrutiny. Too often these theories have been marred by bias or by a tendency to confound the effects of teaching with those of reading. So, for instance, I suggest that if narrative empathy is to.
... philosophers and psychologists, to critical scrutiny. Too often these theories have been marred by bias or by a tendency to confound the effects of teaching with those of reading. So, for instance, I suggest that if narrative empathy is to.
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... philosopher Martha Nussbaum sees novel reading as one of the core strategies for building better world citizens capable of extending love and compassion to unknown others. Encountering Henry James or George Eliot (not coincidentally two ...
... philosopher Martha Nussbaum sees novel reading as one of the core strategies for building better world citizens capable of extending love and compassion to unknown others. Encountering Henry James or George Eliot (not coincidentally two ...
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... philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith. Moving in chronological order through literary periods to the twentieth century, I survey eighteenthcentury sympathy and the literature of sensibility, Romantic and Victorian preoccupations with ...
... philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith. Moving in chronological order through literary periods to the twentieth century, I survey eighteenthcentury sympathy and the literature of sensibility, Romantic and Victorian preoccupations with ...
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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