... ecocriticism empathy emotion embodied simulation character References Albrecht Glenn . 2005 . “ ‘Solastalgia’: A New Concept in Health and Identity .” PAN , no. 3 Knowledge, Understanding, Well-Being: Cognitive Literary Studies : 41 – 55 . Booth Wayne C . 1988 . The Company We...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... of Fiction ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press ). 1988 The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction ( Berkeley : University of California Press ). Bourg Tammy 1996 `` The Role of Emotion, Empathy, and Text Structure in Children's and Adults' Narrative Text Comprehension , in Empirical...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Theresa 2016 . “ Empathy at the Confluence of Neuroscience and Empirical Literary Studies .” Scientific Study of Literature 6 , no. 1 : 6 – 41 . Burnkrant Robert E. Unnava H. Rao 1989 . “ Self-Referencing: A Strategy for Increasing Processing of Message Content .” Personality...

... would gladly read a book where the same cast of authors deals with the question I found insufficiently Book Reviews 127 addressed in this one: how to actually have more dialogue in society in the first place. References Bazalgette, Peter. 2017. The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society...

... 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 . The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding...

... , no. 3 : 377 – 96 . Bishop Jordan . 2021 . “ How to Write a Thank-You Letter for Donations: A Nonprofit Guide .” Donorbox Nonprofit Blog , July 15 . donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/thank-you-letter-for-donations/ . Bloom Paul . 2016 . Against Empathy: The Case for Rational...