Empathy and the novel

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Does reading novels evoking empathy with fictional characters really cultivate our sympathetic imagination and lead to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? This book presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism.

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Full title :Empathy and the novel / Suzanne Keen.

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Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxix, 242 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199851232, 0199851239, 0199884145, 9780199884148, 0199740496, 9780199740499, 1281158976, 9781281158970, 1429491930, 9781429491938, 0195343603, 9780195343601, 9786611158972, 6611158979
oclc:ocn974445392
LC Classification:PN3352.P7
Dewey Decimal:808.301/9

Contemporary perspectives on empathy -- The literary career of empathy -- Readers' empathy -- Empathy in the marketplace -- Authors' empathy -- Contesting empathy -- Appendix : a collection of hypotheses about narrative empathy.

Subjects

Empathie Empathie dans la littérature Empathy empathy Empathy in literature Fiction -- Psychological aspects Nurturing behavior Nurturing behavior in literature Roman -- Aspect psychologique