Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction

Explores how and why narrative fiction engages empathy, including Theory of Mind Offers a broad overview of current scientific work on the effects of fiction-reading on empathy, including Theory of MindProvides an original intervention in the field of literary theory, centring on the reflexive properties of the fictional strangerIncludes stand-alone close readings of three novels by important French authors This book takes its point of departure in recent psychological findings which suggest tha