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Narrative Structuring of Sympathetic Response: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Toni Cade Bambara's “The Hammer Man”
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This article is published in Poetics Today.The article was published on 2009-09-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative.read more
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Introduction: Narrative and the Emotions
TL;DR: Keen as discussed by the authors is the Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English at Washington and Lee University and is the author of the book "The Unwritten World: A History of English Literature".
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Difficult empathy the effect of narrative perspective on readers’ engagement with a first-person narrator
TL;DR: The authors conducted an experimental study with 76 Dutch high-school students and found that the manipulation of narrative perspective did not affect empathy for the character, but did affect trust, and that the increase in trust in third-person narrative depends on the external narrator's authority which validates the perspective of the protagonist.
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How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic Bias: Elizabeth Gaskell's Empathy across Social Difference
Patterns of Cognitive Dissonance in Readers' Engagement with Characters
TL;DR: The authors argue that the audience can cope with the dissonance between their own worldview and the characters' by adjusting their own beliefs and values according to what they have experienced and learned in adopting characters' perspectives.
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"What the Hell Happened to Maggie?": Stereotype, Sympathy, and Disability in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"
TL;DR: The authors examined the role played by sympathy in response to disabled characters in fiction, as is emphasized by an examination of Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif" and found that the narrative's dependence on the implicitly disabled character Maggie for its effects suggests that she serves a "prosthetic" role in the development of the protagonists' and readers' sympathy.