Empathy And The Novel

Does reading novels cultivate our sympathetic imagination and real-world good citizenship? Keen finds the case for altruistic consequences of novel reading unpersuasive. This book engages with neuroscience and psychology, centering cognitive literary studies' scrutiny of fiction on affect, and theorizing narrative empathy through proposals about its deployment and results.

• | By (Author): Suzanne (Broadus Professor Of English, Broadus Professor Of English, Washington And Lee University) Keen
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: May 03, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 019517576X
• | ISBN-13: 9780195175769