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On Sympathy (Hardcover)
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On Sympathy (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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What happens when we engage with fictional characters? How do our
imaginative engagements bear on our actions in the wider world?
Moving between the literary and the philosophical, Sophie Ratcliffe
considers the ways in which readers feel when they read, and how
they understand ideas of feeling. On Sympathy uses dramatic
monologues based on The Tempest as its focus, and broaches
questions about fictional belief, morality, and the dynamics
between readers, writers, and fictional characters. The book
challenges conventionally accepted ideas of literary identification
and sympathy, and asks why the idea of sympathy has been seen as so
important to liberal humanist theories of literary value.
Individual chapters on Robert Browning, W. H. Auden, and Samuel
Beckett, who all drew on Shakespeare's late play, offer new
readings of some major works, while the book's epilogue tackles
questions of contemporary sympathy. Ranging from the nineteenth
century to the present day, this important new study sets out to
clarify and challenge current assumptions about reading and
sympathetic belief, shedding new light on the idea and ideal of
sympathy, the workings of affect and allusion, and the ethics of
reading.
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