...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Morson Gary Saul , Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel . Boston : Academic Studies , 2013 . xxiii + 274 pp. New Books at a Glance Gary Saul Morson, Prosaics and Other...

... . Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Hogan Patrick C . 2011 . Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Iacoboni Marco . 2009 . Mirroring People...

...Erin James Highlighting a trend in current models of narrative empathy that suggests that readers’ ability to empathize with nonhuman characters is dependent wholly on anthropomorphization, this essay explores two narratives that feature chimp characters—Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth and Karen...

...Suzanne Keen Pursuing my earlier theory of strategic narrative empathy, this essay shows Thomas Hardy's bounded strategic empathy for his fictional creations, Wessex countrymen and women; his ambassadorial strategic empathy for animals and select members of despised outgroups; and his broadcast...

...Mary-Catherine Harrison Modern and historical scholarship on empathy has consistently demonstrated that people are more likely to empathize with those who are similar to themselves. This empathic bias for similarity means that the affective bonds and ethical motivations that accompany empathy...

... content analysis. The theoretical framework that served as the point of departure for the content categories was a model of identification in which different types of wish identification, similarity identification, dissimilarity, and empathy were distinguished. Other content categories were derived from...

..., particularly in terms of gender; they posit that art objects trigger unquenchable desire; and—most significantly—they attribute transformative power to such objects. By affirming the power of art images to improve empathy and relationality in their privileged viewers, the novels reauratize art, supplementing...

..., with implications for the reader’s empathy. It examines how “resonance” between paired voices on separate narrative levels occurs when repetition of a deictic across juxtaposed passages or narration and dialogue leads readers to sense a rhetorical continuity despite the grammatical discontinuity. Copyright © 2018...

...Micah L. Mumper; Richard J. Gerrig Research evidence supports the claim that engagement with works of fiction may benefit readers’ social cognitive abilities of empathy and theory of mind. However, there is little direct evidence to support claims about the causal mechanisms underlying the positive...

... of feeling, the shaping powers of the mind, and empathy. An earlier version of this essay was presented at the conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) at Duke University, May 21–24, 2009. I am indebted to Mark J. Bruhn and Meir Sternberg for their suggestions...

...Pieter Vermeulen Abstract The fictional representation of the cognitive experience of people with dementia is often credited with providing an occasion for readerly empathy and a privileged mimetic account of dementia experience. This essay draws on recent scholarship by Caroline Levine and Anna...

..., I discuss some of the implications of the test results for literary studies. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2009 Andringa, Els, Petra van Horssen, Astrid Jacobs, and Ed Tan 2001 “Point of View and Viewer Empathy in Film,” in Perspectives on Narrative Perspective , edited...

... for a selective history of literary emotion, to Sternberg 1999, 2003a, 2003b, and 2009 for pointed critiques of cogni- tive poetics’ omissions of their learned precursors, and to my own survey, “Literary Career of Empathy” (Keen 2007: 37–64), as starting places. Keen • Introduction...

... for Contemporary Art). Keisch, Claude, and Marie Ursual Riemann-Reyher, eds. 1966 Adolph Menzel 1815–1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Koss, Juliet 2006 “On the Limits of Empathy,” Art Bulletin 88 : 139 –54. Kosslyn, Stephen M., William L...

... literature and the psychology of reading. Her previous article, “The Paradox of Fiction and the Ethics of Empathy: Recon- ceiving Dickens’s Realism,” appeared in Narrative. The current article is drawn from her book project, The Ethics of Empathy: Imagining Difference in Victorian Social-Problem­...

... at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He works on eighteenth-­century aesthetics, intellectual history, questions of narrative, and empathy. His recent books are Der Ich-­Effekt des Geldes: Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsfigur (Ego-­Effect on Money [2008 Kulturen der Empathie (Culture...

... in Literary Passages .” Empirical Studies of the Arts 19 , no. 1 : 85 – 109 . Burke Michael Kuzmičová Anežka Mangen Anne Schilhab Theresa 2016 . “ Empathy at the Confluence of Neuroscience and Empirical Literary Studies .” Scientific Study of Literature 6 , no. 1 : 6 – 41...

... and Semiotics 2021 References Bazalgette Peter . 2017 . The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society . London : John Murray . Kearns Laura-Lee . 2015 . “ Subjects of Wonder: Toward an Aesthetics, Ethics, and Pedagogy of Wonder .” Journal of Aesthetic Education 49...

... use of what R. J. R. Blair ( 2005 : 698) terms cognitive empathy , or theory of mind (ToM), the ability to reason about others’ mental states, such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. Literary critics constantly think about who is thinking and feeling what within the literary frame, which requires...

... . Gibson James J . 1966 . The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems . Boston : Houghton Mifflin . Halpern Faye . 2018 . “ Closeness through Unreliability: Sympathy, Empathy, and Ethics in Narrative Communication .” Narrative 26 , no. 2 : 125 – 45 . Johnson Mark . 2007...