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The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of Ethical and Emotional Persuasion
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Sympathy and narrative: Theoretical assumptions, experiential and ethical dimensions, and forms of persuasion: Narrative approaches to the construction of reader sympathy are discussed in this paper.Abstract:
2 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction 4 Part I Sympathy and narrative: Theoretical assumptions 5 1 Believable fictions: On the nature of emotional responses to fictional characters 6 2 Defining sympathy: Experiential and ethical dimensions 7 3 Forms of persuasion: Narrative approaches to the construction of reader sympathy 8 Part II Literary critical and empirical case studies 9 4 Varieties of narrative sympathy: Two preliminary case studies 10 5 Shades of sympathy: The limits and possibilities of identification in Bambara's "The Hammer Man" 11 6 Sympathetic "grotesque": The dynamics of feeling in Sherwood Anderson's "Hands" 12 Part III Sympathy in the classroom 13 7 Narrative as experience: The pedagogical implications of sympathizing with fictional characters 14 8 Conclusion 15 References 16 Indexread more
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