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The art of sympathy in fiction : forms of ethical and emotional persuasion / Howard Sklar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sklar, Howard, 1959-
- Series:
- Linguistic Approaches to Literature
- Linguistic approaches to literature, 1569-3112 ; v. 15
- Linguistic Approaches to Literature ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Sympathy in literature.
- Literature and morals.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Sympathy and narrative : theoretical assumptions
- pt. 2. Literary critical and empirical case studies
- pt. 3. Sympathy in the classroom.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299241022
- 1299241026
- 9789027272201
- 9027272204
- OCLC:
- 831120866
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