Feeling in Others: Essays on Empathy and Suffering in Modern American Culture

ISBN-13: 9783825807900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str.

Nieves Pascual;Antonio Ballesteros Gonzalez

Opis

The book 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 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.

O autorze

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.