Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the
essential guide to literary studies. Starting at 'The Beginning'and concluding with 'The End' …

La storia delle arti è ricca di personaggi, figure, performance, oggetti e spazi connotati
negativamente con cui i fruitori stabiliscono un tipo di relazione empatica ambivalente e …

In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new
science,“the science of the formation of character.” Although Mill's proposal failed as …

In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in
large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city–a place where artists from around the …

Dominant theoretical models of autism and resultant research enquiries have long centered
upon an assumed autism-specific empathy deficit. Associated empirical research has largely …

Inom svensk forskning om läsundervisning har det framhållits att elever redan på
mellanstadiet (åk 4-6) behöver utveckla litterär kompetens och få vägledning i hur de kan …

What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives explores this unprecedented
question on the rich ground of Tolstoy's and Dostoevsky's fiction. Each author discovered …

Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has
of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language …

Abstract “Forget Taste” rejects the classical notion of taste as a viable concept for the
exercise of critical evaluation and proposes an alternative approach to critical evaluation …

This essay updates and extends the model for understanding the concept of character in
literary fiction I proposed in Reading People, Reading Plots (1989). That model proposes …