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Rethinking Empathy through Literature

Rethinking Empathy through Literature

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature, Book 31

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0415736234
ISBN13: 9780415736237
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 15 2014
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to feeling with others is key to rethinking empathy conceptually. This volume challenges common understandings of empathy, asking readers to question what it is, how it works, and who is capable of performing it. The authors reveal the exciting research on empathy currently emerging from literary studies while also making productive connections to other areas of study such as psychology and neurobiology.

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