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Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature) - Hardcover

Ercolino, Stefano; Fusillo, Massimo

 
9781032958729: Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

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It introduces the concept of "negative empathy" to examine how readers and viewers engage emotionally and cognitively with ethically troubling artworks. Through a comparative and intermedial approach, it offers a compelling new theory of aesthetic engagement with representations of negativity in art.

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Stefano Ercolino teaches literary theory and comparative literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He is the author of The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" to Roberto Bolaño's "2666" and The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947. He co-edited Experimental Criticism: Franco Moretti and Literature.

Massimo Fusillo teaches comparative literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He is the author of several books, including The Fetish: Literature, Cinema, Visual Art. He co-edited The Gesamtkunstwerk as Synergy of the Arts and Thinking Narratively: Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay.

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It introduces the concept of “negative empathy” to examine how readers and viewers engage emotionally and cognitively with ethically troubling artworks. Through a comparative and intermedial approach, it offers a compelling new theory of aesthetic engagement with representations of negativity in art.

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