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Empathy and the Novel

Auteur: Keen, Suzanne (Broadus Professor of English, Broadus Professor of English, Washington and Lee University)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
Does reading novels cultivate our sympathetic imagination and real-world good citizenship? Keen finds the case for altruistic consequences of novel reading unpersuasive. This book engages with neuroscience and psychology, centering cognitive literary studies' scrutiny of fiction on affect, and theorizing narrative empathy through proposals about its deployment and results.
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Does reading novels cultivate our sympathetic imagination and real-world good citizenship? Keen finds the case for altruistic consequences of novel reading unpersuasive. This book engages with neuroscience and psychology, centering cognitive literary studies' scrutiny of fiction on affect, and theorizing narrative empathy through proposals about its deployment and results.
ISBN / EAN 9780195175769
Auteur Keen, Suzanne (Broadus Professor of English, Broadus Professor of English, Washington and Lee University)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc