This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process" showing how some masterpieces …
Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental state is mess. Viewi…
This volume looks at ideas of sympathy in the early 20th-century novel. It offers a new reading of literary modernism challenging notions of modernism as hostile to emotion and empathy. It also offers a new intervention into the growing field of literature and emotion studies.
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 o…
"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 …
Important trends in contemporary intellectual life celebrate difference, divisiveness, and distinction. Speculative writing increasingly highlights ""hermeneutic gaps"" between human beings, their histories, and their hopes. In this book Karl Morrison identifies an alternative t…
Le site de l'éditeur indique : "This book takes its point of departure in recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, including Theory of Mind. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engagement with fictional stor…
This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'na ve' readers. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engage…
This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'na ve' readers. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engage…
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to …
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to …
