In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across...
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In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to "feeling with" others is key to rethinking empathy conceptually. This collection challenges common understandings of empathy, asking readers to question what it is, how it works, and who is capable of performing it. The authors reveal the exciting research on empathy that is currently emerging from lite
13 Empathy and Gender Activism in Early Modern Spain: María de Zayas's Amorous and Exemplary Novels14 Irony as Cognitive Empathy: Mind-Reading Tom Jones's Narrator; 15 Gertrude Stein and Empty Empathy; 16 Paradoxical Worsening of Empathy: Ambassadorial Science Journalism and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Contributors; Index
7 Empathizing with the Experience of Cultural Change: Reflections on Contemporary Fiction on WorkPart III Difficult Empathy; 8 Empathy and the Unlikeable Character: On Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Zola's Thérèse Raquin; 9 ""The Great Sum of Universal Anguish"": Statistical Empathy in Victorian Social-Problem Literature; 10 Conformist Culture and the Failures of Empathy: Reading James Baldwin and Patricia Highsmith; 11 ""More Electrical Than Ethical"": Joan Didion and Empathy; 12 Humanizing the Inhumane: The Value of Difficult Empathy; Part IV Empathy and Genre
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Empathy and Reading; 1 Novel Readers and the Empathetic Angel of Our Nature; 2 Empathy Aesthetics: Experimenting Between Psychology and Poetry; 3 Feeling Your Pain: Exploring Empathy in Literature and Neuroscience; Part II Empathy, Form, and the Body; 4 Empathic Noise; 5 I Object: Autism, Empathy, and the Trope of Personification; 6 ""Hearing the Speechless"": Empathy with Animals in Contemporary German Lyric Poetry
Rethinking Empathy through Literature
Published:
2014
Publisher:
Routledge, New York [u.a.]
In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across...
more
In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to ""feeling with"" others is key to rethinking empathy conceptually. This collection challenges common understandings of empathy, asking readers to question what it is, how it works, and who is capable of performing it. The authors reveal the exciting research on empathy that is currently emerging from lite
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Empathy and Reading; 1 Novel Readers and the Empathetic Angel of Our Nature; 2 Empathy Aesthetics: Experimenting Between Psychology and Poetry; 3 Feeling Your Pain: Exploring Empathy in Literature and Neuroscience; Part II Empathy, Form, and the Body; 4 Empathic Noise; 5 I Object: Autism, Empathy, and the Trope of Personification; 6 ""Hearing the Speechless"": Empathy with Animals in Contemporary German Lyric Poetry
7 Empathizing with the Experience of Cultural Change: Reflections on Contemporary Fiction on WorkPart III Difficult Empathy; 8 Empathy and the Unlikeable Character: On Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Zola's Thérèse Raquin; 9 ""The Great Sum of Universal Anguish"": Statistical Empathy in Victorian Social-Problem Literature; 10 Conformist Culture and the Failures of Empathy: Reading James Baldwin and Patricia Highsmith; 11 ""More Electrical Than Ethical"": Joan Didion and Empathy; 12 Humanizing the Inhumane: The Value of Difficult Empathy; Part IV Empathy and Genre
13 Empathy and Gender Activism in Early Modern Spain: María de Zayas's Amorous and Exemplary Novels14 Irony as Cognitive Empathy: Mind-Reading Tom Jones's Narrator; 15 Gertrude Stein and Empty Empathy; 16 Paradoxical Worsening of Empathy: Ambassadorial Science Journalism and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Contributors; Index
