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In:The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of ethical and emotional persuasion
Howard Sklar
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 15] 2013
► pp. vii–ix

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Published online: 13 March 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.15.toc

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Sympathy and narrative: Theoretical assumptions

1. Believable fictions: On the nature of emotional responses to fictional characters

2. Defining sympathy: Experiential and ethical dimensions

3. Forms of persuasion: Narrative approaches to the construction of reader sympathy

Part II. Literary critical and empirical case studies

4. Varieties of narrative sympathy: Two preliminary case studies

5. Shades of sympathy: The limits and possibilities of identification in Bambara’s “The Hammer Man”

6. Sympathetic “grotesque”: The dynamics of feeling in Sherwood Anderson’s “Hands”

Part III. Sympathy in the classroom

7. Narrative as experience: The pedagogical implications of sympathizing with fictional characters

8. Conclusion

References

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