1st Edition
Empathy and Reading Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader
Contents
Introduction
PART I Theories of Narrative Empathy
1 A Theory of Narrative Empathy
2 from Strategic Empathizing: Techniques of Bounded, Ambassadorial, and Broadcast Narrative Empathy
3 from Empathic Inaccuracy in Narrative Fiction
4 from Narrative and the Embodied Reader
5 from Life Writing and the Empathetic Circle
PART II Empathetic Readers
6 from Intersectional Narratology in the Study of Narrative Empathy
7 from Empathy in Reading: Considerations of Gender and Ethnicity
8 from Readers’ Temperaments and Fictional Character
9 from Novel Readers and the Empathetic Angel of our Nature
PART III Interdisciplinary Applications of Empathy, Affect, and Cognition
10 from Introduction: Narrative and the Emotions
11 from Empathy Studies
12 from Affect and Empathy Studies
13 from Affective Trollope: Marshaling the feelings in Orley Farm
14 from Twenty-First Century Fictional Experiments with Emotion and Cognition
15 from Human Rights Discourse and Universals of Cognition and Emotion: Postcolonial Fiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Suzanne Keen serves as president of Scripps College, USA, where she is a member of the English Department. Her interdisciplinary work on narrative empathy draws on the novel, narrative theory, neuroscience, developmental and social psychology, and affective science.
