Empathy and literary reading: the case of Fräulein Else’s interior monologue

This contribution is aimed at analyzing  how empathy is instantiated when we read works of fiction and at studying which elements can improve the consonance between characters and readers. Starting from a brief summary about empathy with regard to literary texts, the paper examines the ques...

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Autor: Vinci, Elisabetha
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Uruguay
Recursos:Universidad de Montevideo
Repositorio:REDUM
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:redum.um.edu.uy:20.500.12806/2226
Acesso em linha:http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/375
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Empatía
Literatura
Lectura
Personajes de ficción
Monólogo interior
Empathy
Literature
Reading
Fictional characters
Interior monologue
Empatia
Leitura
Personagens fictícios
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Resumo:This contribution is aimed at analyzing  how empathy is instantiated when we read works of fiction and at studying which elements can improve the consonance between characters and readers. Starting from a brief summary about empathy with regard to literary texts, the paper examines the question concerning human reception of fictional characters in order to investigate how we empathize with them through the description of some elements which foster empathy: internal focalization, interior monologue and movement description. Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler will serve as case study of empathic reading.