Empathy and reading : affect, impact, and the co-creating reader
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Empathy and reading : affect, impact, and the co-creating reader
Routledge, 2022
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This pioneering collection brings together Suzanne Keen's extensive body of work on empathy and reading, charting the development of narrative empathy as an area of inquiry in its own right and extending cross-disciplinary conversations about empathy evoked by reading.
Ambitious in scope, this book brings different strands of the author's research into conversation with existing debates, with the aim of inspiring future interdisciplinary research on narrative empathy.
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Contents
Introduction
PART I Theories of Narrative Empathy
1 A Theory of Narrative Empathy
2 from Strategic Empathizing: Techniques of Bounded, Ambassadorial, and Broadcast Narrative Empathy
3 from Empathic Inaccuracy in Narrative Fiction
4 from Narrative and the Embodied Reader
5 from Life Writing and the Empathetic Circle
PART II Empathetic Readers
6 from Intersectional Narratology in the Study of Narrative Empathy
7 from Empathy in Reading: Considerations of Gender and Ethnicity
8 from Readers' Temperaments and Fictional Character
9 from Novel Readers and the Empathetic Angel of our Nature
PART III Interdisciplinary Applications of Empathy, Affect, and Cognition
10 from Introduction: Narrative and the Emotions
11 from Empathy Studies
12 from Affect and Empathy Studies
13 from Affective Trollope: Marshaling the feelings in Orley Farm
14 from Twenty-First Century Fictional Experiments with Emotion and Cognition
15 from Human Rights Discourse and Universals of Cognition and Emotion: Postcolonial Fiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
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