Feeling in Others
Essays on Empathy and Suffering in Modern American Culture
1st Edition
Published in March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-3-8258-0790-0 (ISBN)
Description
Feeling in Others: Essays on Empathy and Suffering in Modern Culture addresses different kinds of suffering as presented in texts, visual and verbal, and proposes empathy as an ethical exigency of the act of reading and critical tool. The volume brings together contributions from Americanists in France, Norway, Austria, Hungary, and Spain. It examines paintings, comic strips, autobiographies, fictional narratives, and poems on pain from a variety of critical perspectives, bringing together the fields of cognitive psychology, phenomenology, literary criticism, and architecture to account for the complexity of the contagious difference of pain.
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Nieves Pascual Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Jaén, Spain. Currently working on a manuscript on hunger and writing.
Antonio Ballesteros González Currently he is professor of English Literature at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Ciudad Real, Spain. He has worked on gothic and popular texts.
Antonio Ballesteros González Currently he is professor of English Literature at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Ciudad Real, Spain. He has worked on gothic and popular texts.