On sympathy:

Taking Shakespeare as its starting point, this book examines why and how we read poetry, how we relate to fictional characters, and whether reading is good for you. It also focuses on key works by Browning, Auden, and Beckett, and concludes with a critique of contemporary ideas about art, sympathy,...

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1. Verfasser: Ratcliffe, Sophie 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford Univ. Press 2008
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford English monographs
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Zusammenfassung:Taking Shakespeare as its starting point, this book examines why and how we read poetry, how we relate to fictional characters, and whether reading is good for you. It also focuses on key works by Browning, Auden, and Beckett, and concludes with a critique of contemporary ideas about art, sympathy, and community.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Introduction -- Understanding sympathy and sympathetic understanding -- Brownings strangeness -- W. H. Auden : as mirrors are lonely -- Samuel Beckett : humanity in ruins -- Epilogue : sympathy now
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 266 S.) Ill.
ISBN:9780191716799
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239870.001.0001

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