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Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction
- Readings in French Realism
Engelsk Paperback
Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction
- Readings in French Realism
Engelsk Paperback

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Explores how and why narrative fiction engages empathy, including Theory of Mind
Offers a broad overview of current scientific work on the effects of fiction-reading on empathy, including Theory of MindProvides an original intervention in the field of literary theory, centring on the reflexive properties of the fictional strangerIncludes stand-alone close readings of three novels by important French authors

This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, ‘naïve’ readers. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engagement with fictional stories also teaches us to resist uncritical forms of empathy and reminds us of the limitations of our ability to understand other people. The book treats figures of the stranger in Balzac’s La Fille aux yeux d’or, Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir and Sand’s Indiana as emblematic of the strangeness of narrative fiction, both drawing us in and keeping us at a distance.




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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781474463041
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1474463045
Udg. Dato:
3 mar 2022
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
235mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
3 mar 2022
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