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- Title
Refreshed hypotheses.
- Authors
Keen, Suzanne
- Abstract
When I began working on narrative empathy, from a home base of rhetorical narratology, I couldn't have anticipated how far the ideas I put forward in "A Theory of Narrative Empathy" ([5]) and I Empathy and the Novel i ([6]) would travel, especially beyond literary studies. The authors follow [2] advice about the interaction of textual features and diversely experienced readers: "empathy should be seen as a complex and context-dependent phenomenon where both textual and reader factors can influence" outcomes. For example, the authors focus on short-term effects of narrative empathy on readers, observed during reading or immediately afterwards, rather than assuming or attempting to demonstrate either long-term impacts or prosocial outcomes of empathetic reading. What was occurring in the communication transaction between author and readers, mediated by empathy-inviting narratives?.
- Subjects
EMPATHY; NARRATOLOGY; MENTAL training; SOUND symbolism; CONCEPT mapping; LITERARY interpretation; RACE discrimination
- Publication
Journal of Literary Semantics, 2023, Vol 52, Issue 2, p249
- ISSN
0341-7638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jls-2023-2015