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The art of sympathy in fiction : forms of ethical and emotional persuasion /
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 poss...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Linguistic approaches to literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | 8.1 Empiricism, interdisciplinarity and literary studies: Obstacles and opportunities. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027272201 9027272204 1299241026 9781299241022 |