... in both quantity and quality: it not only appears more frequently, but the level of distress also seems greater. This heightened emotional response suggests that students are engaging in forms of narrative empathy other than the more cognitive perspective-taking empathy. For many students, especially...

.... Danielewski, Mark Z. 2000. House of Leaves. New York: Pantheon. Jordan, Justine. 2011. A Life in Writing: China Miéville. Guardian, 13 May. www .theguardian.com/books/2011/may/14/china- mieville- life- writing- genre. Keen, Suzanne. 2011. Readers Temperaments and Narrative Empathy. New Literary History...

... of Narrative Empathy.” Narrative 14 : 207 - 36. Lejeune, Phillippe. 1989 . “The Autobiographical Pact.” In On Autobiography , ed. Paul John Eakin, trans. Katherine Leary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. 2003 . “The Strangeness of Creative Writing...

..., as Walt Whitman proclaimed, if that is so, very well; I am vast; I contain multitudes. My fall 2016 course began with a personal narrative assignment, and I assigned Leslie Jamison s essay The Empathy Exams (2014), which details the period when the author worked as a medical actor and, coincidentally...

... polycultural curriculum, the latter insists on unfl inching criticism of racist domination and its impact on education, including composition curricula. Gilyard s diff erentiation relies on a commonsensical and commodifi ed defi nition of multiculturalism as a grand narrative that celebrates our national...

...Barclay Barrios; Andrew Hudnall The authors argue that violence is the most important issue facing the profession of English now. Tracing their experiences with violence and trauma in and near their classrooms, they suggest that, while this problem seems intractable, practicing the arts of empathy...

... empathy for Christopher. In the course of discussion, when I present the argument that the representation of Christo- pher’s disability is idealistic or is inconsistently employed only when it suits the narrative, students resist such criticisms. Even when I give them critiques published by people...

... and composition has long been preoccupied with student resistance as evidenced by its incessant return as a narrative, this special issue asks scholars in the field to do just that: return incessantly to thinking and theorizing about our own ideological commitments and political inflections in our teaching...

..., not routine,” she goes on to provide several examples of such exceptional experiences (65). The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (Falke 2016 ) suggests that literature can foster empathy, attention, and a willingness to be overwhelmed—even love. Hanna Meretoja ( 2017 : 13) suggests that narrative's...

... observed, “Many disciplines teach that we ought to empathize with others. But these disciplines do not involve actual practice in empathy. Great literature does that, and in that respect its study remains unique among university-­taught subjects.” Beyond providing such experiences of empathy...

... poorly he has treated his wife, and despite his ostensible moment of personal empower­ ment, in his failure of true empathy for her he finds himself doomed to the lonely and alienated future that his narrative has been building toward. Though all these details are present, and notable...

... Cosgrove    WRIT101  139 with empathy when she writes: “Narrative theorists, novel critics, and reading specialists have already singled out a small set of narrative techniques — such as the use of first person narration and the interior representation of char- acters’ consciousness and emotional...

... Cosgrove    WRIT101  139 with empathy when she writes: “Narrative theorists, novel critics, and reading specialists have already singled out a small set of narrative techniques — such as the use of first person narration and the interior representation of char- acters’ consciousness and emotional...

... multimodal talks, students at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University South Bend expand and disturb the meaning of their local community and, in doing so, help to rewrite the haunted story of South Bend, Indiana. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 storytelling narrative...

... Cosgrove    WRIT101  139 with empathy when she writes: “Narrative theorists, novel critics, and reading specialists have already singled out a small set of narrative techniques — such as the use of first person narration and the interior representation of char- acters’ consciousness and emotional...

...- cism, as well as critical theory, with a focus on biopolitics. K. Shannon Howard is an assistant professor in English specializing in rhet- oric and composition at Auburn University at Montgomery. Her research interests include the use of popular culture narratives in the composition classroom...

... of the course and hold the position of priority. Their content finds visualization in the televi- sion series; moreover, the series offers students a way to approach the novels, not as self-­contained narratives confined to the boundaries of page and plot but as engagements in national and cultural...

... to this invitation to empathy, eagerly embracing the narrative’s textual example of social advocacy as it is calibrated through emotion. This dynamic is evident even in the first pages of the manuscript, which recount, from Laurence’s perspective, his parents’ initial decision to assign a male identity...

... in the teacher education program at Purdue. Her specialties are teacher education and professional identity development, the teaching of composition and litera- ture in middle and high schools, critical pedagogy, young adult literature, and qualitative and narrative inquiry. She has coauthored a book titled...

... student feedback and with colleagues: all three editions were co-edited with Nancy Comley and Gregory Ulmer. Text Book intersperses literary works with creative exercises focusing on the students’ own lives, tracing how their experiences can be transformed into narrative structures and vice-versa...