Empathy and the Novel

Source : OUP Empathy and the Novel, Oxford University Press, 2015 Suzanne Keen Provides a thorough account of the relevant research in psychology, discourse processing, neuroscience, and narrative theory. Redresses the lack of attention to affect by literary scholars: practitioners of cognitive literary studies have long sought an emphasis on affect and Keen makes it an integral part of her study. Presents groundbreaking new theory of narrative empathy: the empathy-altruism hypothesis, while..