Empathy and the Novel
Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. 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 ofempathy and the psychological study of fiction reading.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-974049-9
- EAN: 9780199740499
- Produktnummer: 22186438
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B15.9 cm x D1.9 cm 402 g
- Gewicht: 402
Über den Autor
Suzanne Keen, Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, is the author of Narrative Form (2003), Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction (2001), Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (1998), and a volume of poetry, Milk Glass Mermaid (2007).
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