Empathy and the novel

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"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, but 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…

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Full title :Empathy and the novel / Suzanne Keen.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:xxix, 242 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780195175769, 019517576X
oclc:ocn173238206
LC Classification:PN3352.P7
Dewey Decimal:808.3019

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