The art of sympathy in fiction [[electronic resource] ] : forms of ethical and emotional persuasion / / Howard Sklar
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| Autore: |
Sklar Howard <1959->
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| Titolo: |
The art of sympathy in fiction [[electronic resource] ] : forms of ethical and emotional persuasion / / Howard Sklar
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - History and criticism |
| Sympathy in literature | |
| Literature and morals | |
| Books and reading | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Sympathy and narrative : theoretical assumptions -- pt. 2. Literary critical and empirical case studies -- pt. 3. Sympathy in the classroom. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The art of sympathy in fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-299-24102-6 |
| 90-272-7220-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792072503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Linguistic Approaches to Literature