Isbn: 9783110624014 - the making of the sympathetic imagination: transformations of sympathy in british eighteenth-century philosophy and fiction (transformationen der antike, 61) (11 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study traces the emergence of what became a key concept of intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions, Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result, the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy. Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its literary and moral potential.; Dissertationsschrift.…

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. Roman Alexander Barton, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the.

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Festeinband. Zustand: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. X, 210 Seiten. Neuwertig. - - Preface - - 1. INTRODUCTION - - Transformations towards a Notion of Sympathetic Imagination - - 2. SYMPATHY RENDERED MORAL - - Lord Shaftesbury and the Ancient Traditions of Sympathy - - 2.1 What Strikes a Sympathetic Chord: - - Reading the Stoics, Casaubon and Whichcote - - 2.2 Sympathy Reflected, or: How to become a Friend of Mankind - - 2.3 The Moral Effects of Fiction: Sympathetic Imagination avant la lettre - - 3. SYSTEMS OF SYMPATHY - - The Rise of the Sympathetic Imagination in Scottish Empiricism - - 3.1 "What's Hecuba to us, or we to Hecuba?": Sympathy in Francis Hutcheson's Empiricist Perspective - - 3.2 --Fictions of Sympathy": - David Hume on the Sympathetic Imagination of the Moral Triad - - 4. FROM ETHICS TO POETICS OF SYMPATHY - The Three Dimensions of the Sympathetic Imagination - - 4.1 Narrative and Theatrical Forms of Fellow-Feeling: - - Adam Smith on the Sympathies of Readers and Theatregoers - - 4.2 Imaginative Expansions of Sympathy in Ideal Presence: - - Lord Kames on Sympathetic Reading and Writing - - 5. NARRATING SYMPATHY & SYMPATHETIC NARRATION - - Sympathetic Imagination in the Man-of-Feeling Novel - - 5.1 From Laughter to Tears: Oliver Goldsmith on the Propriety and - - Impropriety of Fellow-Feeling - - - 5.2 From Fool to Friend: Henry Brooke and Henry Mackenzie on the - - Virtue of Sympathies - - 5.3 The -NewSentimentalism< Revisited - - BIBLIOGRAPHY - - INDEX OF NAMES - - INDEX OF SUBJECTS. ISBN 9783110624014 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 549. …