...Ruth HaCohen Sympathy , in the sense of the ability to suffer with or for the other, entered English usage toward the end of the sixteenth century. This marks an important moment in Western culture, the birth of a new artistic sensibility nourished by the Aristotelian notion of poetic compassion...

... metaphorical relation between the two dominant conceptions of affect in theory: the development of systems of transport that seemed to threaten the autonomy of persons and feelings by putting into circulation feelings and persons from abroad; and the emergence of philosophical ideas about sympathy (Adam Smith...

...Howard Sklar This essay examines some of the ways that narratives produce sympathy in readers. First, I compare several models that have been proposed to explain how fictional texts structure readers' emotional responses. In this connection, I highlight some of the ways that narratological analyses...

... of Romanticism, to the projection of feeling onto inanimate objects theorized by late-nineteenth-century German aesthetics as Einfühlung . Hardy's diction and notes show his knowledge of the related concepts, sympathy and altruism. At the time, sympathy (feeling for someone) was differentiated from empathy...

... to the establishment of a climate of normative sympathy between teller and receiver. Humorous novels, far longer and more complex than jokes, largely base the process of incongruity-resolution on an interplay of, on the one hand, text-internal coherence established by the persistent use of strong implicature...

...” that was fostered by the need to adjust loyalist sympathies to fit his own peripheral status. Committed both professionally and temperamentally to a pluralist understanding of history writing, D'Israeli integrated into his work from the 1790s through to the 1840s biographical, political, social, and psychological...

... taxonomy of contemporary definitions of empathy, see Batson 2009. 2. The comparative importance of empathy in situations of distress likely accounts for the etymological fate of sympathy. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, sympathy meant “the fact or capacity of entering into and sharing...

... recently completed his doctorate in the Department of English at the University of Helsinki, where he also teaches. The title of his dissertation is “The Art of Sympathy: Forms of Moral and Emotional Persuasion in Fiction.” He has contrib- uted essays on narrative sympathy to academic journals...

.... Perceiving such miscreations sensorily, as if in the flesh, Prometheus exclaims, ‘‘Whilst I behold such execrable shapes, / Methinks I grow like what I contemplate / And laugh and stare in loathsome sympathy’’ Beholding the low, the grotesque, the evil, Prometheus threatens to become it, to mirror...

... perspective does not necessarily influence opinions in the direction of sympathy with the person whose perspective is chosen in the narrative. Literary texts, however, can combine perspectives in such a way that it becomes very difficult...

... preferences. Haidt (2012: 38) asks, Do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings? This overstates the case. Emotion systems do not simply activate on their own; they are not auton- omous. Indeed...

..., from a determination of the typology of terrorism in contemporary fiction. What types of terrorism appear in recent novels? What types of representation are these types of terrorism submitted to? What varieties of narrative tra- jectories and moral sympathies is terrorism recruited to serve...

... 403 Burgess, Miranda On Being Moved: Sympathy, Mobility, and Narrative Form 289 Dissanayake, Ellen Prelinguistic and Preliterature Substrates of Poetic Narrative 55 Felski, Rita Suspicious Minds 215 Freeman, Margaret H. The Aesthetics of Human...

... of “Innate Passions,” “co-existent with our organization” (ibid.: 205, 328). Innate passions would provide what an earlier letter termed “instinc- tive . . . motives of action” for those social dispositions—for example, “con- geniality, sympathy, unaccountable attractions of intellect...

... . 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...

... . Sklar Howard . 2013 . The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of Ethical and Emotional Persuasion . Amsterdam : John Benjamins . Smith Duane A. 1994 . Mining in America: The Industry and Environment, 1800–1980 . Boulder : University Press of Colorado . Spivak Gayatri...

...: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ). Sklar Howard . 2013 The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of Ethical and Emotional Persuasion ( Amsterdam : Benjamins ). Stewart John Gapenne Olivier Di Paolo...

... that trained him, by championing aesthetics and form to peers still in thrall to self-consciously egalitarian theories that dismiss the organization of art as arbitrary “taste” and analyses of distinction as bourgeois complacency. Those for whom art is not a dirty word have watched with sympathy...

...- tion of communion, of the revival of sympathy—and so of understanding— but only via the representation of such failed moments. Delbo, who is more claustrophobic than Fink and who, even after lib- eration, often feels the camp closing in, has a way of using metaphor not so much to depict a near...

... but rather one “of ethical concern and pragmatic life experience” (33). Thus, she creates narrators who invite us to share their perceptions and values, their mixture of judgment and sympathy toward the characters within the fictional world. Robyn Warhol’s “‘It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You...