Howard Sklar

List of John Benjamins publications in which Howard Sklar is involved.

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The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of ethical and emotional persuasion

Howard Sklar

By taking an interdisciplinary approach — with methods drawn from narratology, aesthetics, social psychology, education, and the empirical study of literature — The Art of Sympathy in Fiction will interest scholars in a variety of fields. Its focus is the sympathetic effects of stories, and the… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 15] 2013. xiv, 192 pp.

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Sklar, Howard and Irma Taavitsainen 2017 Chapter 5. A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine: A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 81–96 | Chapter

The Gentleman’s Magazine (GM, 1732–1922) was the first periodical magazine targeted at an educated lay readership from polite society. Medical items and related issues were a regular feature, e.g. suicide was a recurring topic in its early years. One example of this was a 1755 mock advertisement… read more