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Empathy and the Novel
Suzanne Keen
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Description for Empathy and the Novel
Hardcover. Does reading novels cultivate our sympathetic imagination and real-world good citizenship? This book brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. It also engages with neuroscience and contemporary psychological research on empathy. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 541.
Does reading novels evoking empathy with fictional characters really cultivate our sympathetic imagination and lead 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. Though readers' and authors' empathy certainly contribute to the emotional resonance of fiction and its success in the marketplace, Keen finds the case for altruistic consequences of novel reading inconclusive (and exaggerated by defenders of literary reading). She offers instead a detailed theory of narrative empathy, with proposals about its deployment by novelists and its results in readers. Empathy and ... Read more
Does reading novels evoking empathy with fictional characters really cultivate our sympathetic imagination and lead 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. Though readers' and authors' empathy certainly contribute to the emotional resonance of fiction and its success in the marketplace, Keen finds the case for altruistic consequences of novel reading inconclusive (and exaggerated by defenders of literary reading). She offers instead a detailed theory of narrative empathy, with proposals about its deployment by novelists and its results in readers. Empathy and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195175769
SKU
V9780195175769
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Ref
99-1
About Suzanne Keen
Suzanne Keen, Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, is the author of Narrative Form (2003), Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction (2001), Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (1998), and a volume of poetry, Milk Glass Mermaid (2007).
Reviews for Empathy and the Novel
This work's forte is its willingness to range across a series of disciplines and to locate itself at the interconnection between science and literature. Well illustrated...It is an extremely stimulating, clearly written and accessible work which will be of interest to scholars of literature, psychology and neuroscience alike.
Alison E. Martin, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
Alison E. Martin, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies