| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Series |
Linguistic approaches to literature |
|
Linguistic approaches to literature.
|
| Contents |
The Art of Sympathy in Fiction; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Sympathy and narrative: Theoretical assumptions; 1. Believable fictions: On the nature of emotional responses to fictional characters; 1.1 Character and the question of believability; 1.2 Emotional responses to fictional characters; 2. Defining sympathy: Experiential and ethical dimensions; 2.1 Empathy: The chameleon emotion; 2.2 Towards a working definition of sympathy; 2.3 Sympathy: A "moral sentiment"? |
|
2.4 Real-life and narrative sympathy: Experiential differences and ethical implications3. Forms of persuasion: Narrative approaches to the construction of reader sympathy; 3.1 Narrative empathy or sympathy? The role of aesthetic distance; 3.2 The poetics of narrative sympathy; Part II. Literary critical and empirical case studies; 4.1 The clothes make the man: Fantastic empathy and realistic sympathy in Roth's "Eli, the Fanatic"; 4. Varieties of narrative sympathy: Two preliminary case studies; 4.1.1 Challenging realistic conventions |
|
4.1.2 Naturalizing a strange reality: Stereotyping as a strategy for creating verisimilitude4.1.3 Defamiliarizing readers' perceptions; 4.1.4 Fantastic empathy and realistic sympathy; 4.1.5 Reevaluating "reality"; 4.2 Sympathy as self-discovery: The significance of caring for others in Ursula K. Le Guin's "Betray; 4.2.1 Lost in the marshlands: Cognitive estrangement and the cultivation of empathy; 4.2.2 Abberkam as Other: "Emotional estrangement" and reader judgment; 4.2.3 The rehabilitation of Abberkam: Revised judgment and the beginnings of sympathy |
|
4.2.4 The restoration of Self: Sympathetic caring comes full-circle5. Shades of sympathy: The limits and possibilities of identification in Bambara's "The Hammer Man"; 5.1 Structure and response: Some theoretical approaches to reader emotions; 5.2 Surprised by sympathy: The effects of delayed exposition; 5.3 Empirical approaches to "The Hammer Man"; 5.3.1 Defining sympathy: A brief review; 5.3.2 Methods and subjects; 5.3.3 Results; 5.3.4 General discussion of the test results; 6. Sympathetic "grotesque": The dynamics of feeling in Sherwood Anderson's "Hands." |
|
6.1 The making of a sympathetic "grotesque"6.2 The Dynamics of feeling in "Hands"; 6.3 The Reader Emotions Test (RET) for "Hands"; 6.3.1 Methods and subjects; 6.3.2 Results for Test A; 6.3.3 Results for Test B; 6.3.4 General discussion; Part III. Sympathy in the classroom; 7. Narrative as experience: The pedagogical implications of sympathizing with fictional characters; 7.1 The End of innocence? Adolescent development and narrative fiction; 7.2 Making sense of sympathy: Pedagogical approaches to understanding narrative experiences; 7.3 Concluding remarks on student engagement |
| Summary |
By taking an interdisciplinary approach - with methods drawn from narratology, aesthetics, social psychology, education, and the empirical study of literature - The Art of Sympathy in Fiction will interest scholars in a variety of fields. Its focus is the sympathetic effects of stories, and the possible ways these feelings can contribute to what has been called the "moral imagination." Part I examines the dynamics of readers' beliefs regarding fictional characters and the influence of those impressions on the emotions that readers experience. The book then turns its attention to sympath |
| Notes |
8.1 Empiricism, interdisciplinarity and literary studies: Obstacles and opportunities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism
|
|
Sympathy in literature.
|
|
Literature and morals.
|
|
Books and reading.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
|
|
American fiction
|
|
Books and reading
|
|
Literature and morals
|
|
Sympathy in literature
|
|
Languages.
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2012046162 |
| ISBN |
9789027272201 |
|
9027272204 |
|
1299241026 |
|
9781299241022 |
|
