... connection positions the actor as the aspiring target of the eventual audience’s empathy, as mediated by the actor’s relationship with the camera. appresentations bodymind empathy enworlding intersubjective empathy intrasubjective empathy Method acting performative empathy quotidian self situational...

... fellow actors. Adler Stella agency collaboration empathy industrial culture Meisner Sanford Method acting Strasberg Lee training affordances cognitive ecologies constraints enculturation Gibson J J Greeno James perception auditions bodymind Donaldson Lucy Fife film sets Gandolfini...

...The concluding chapter presents suggestions for three potential directions for research into empathy in screen acting. First, the three empathetic solicitations as supported by Coplan’s criteria could be used as a useful comparative framework for analyzing realist screen acting practices across...

...A short polemic, meant to provoke, given as a talk at a conference for senior school students. It argues against the insistence in teaching and reading on ‘identifying’ with characters and on empathy, the idea that reading fiction, novels, drama and poetry, is primarily about feeling for ‘other...

... zigzagging between the immanent limits of empathy and abstraction, nature and culture, the extensive and the intensive, signification and significance, as well as the political and the libidinal. autonomy body Deleuze and Guattari digital turn ecology form of life Gibson James Jerome mode of existence...

... empathy for Mansfield in the years after her death, arguing that this empathy constitutes a form of influence itself, as imitations of Mansfield’s experience are located in Woolf’s diary, criticism, growing feminist sensibility and fiction. Bell Ann Olivier empathy Grub Street Woolf Virginia Bloom...

...The Introduction begins by identifying the three central issues in the mainstream medical humanities that it sets out to address: the restriction of medicine to the individualised clinical encounter, its under-theorised understanding of empathy, and its positioning of literature as a transparent...

...Empathy is a cognitive and affective structure of feeling, a bridge across interpersonal distance. Coined in 1909 to combine English “sympathy” and German “Einfühlung,” “empathy” is a specifically twentieth-century concept of fellow feeling. Empathy and the Psychology of Literary Modernism...

...This chapter excavates the structures of empathy and indirection in Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, and considers the productive tensions between them. It begins with an analysis of the three prose poems collected under the title ‘Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics’ (1967), that have been subject to scant...

... into his or her own world. Success in judicial practice is also closely connected to the ability to empathise and to the equitable in the individual case. The building blocks that this chapter suggests for legal practice at the same time show the importance of the humanities for law. empathy metaphor...

...Part III deals with what Cardozo called “the perplexities of judges” that become “the scholar’s opportunity”. Chapter 11 revisits the topic of empathy by distinguishing between forms of empathy and the way in which they are triggered, in works of fiction as much as in our daily lives. It argues...

...This chapter focuses on Yann Martel’s allegorical novels Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil in order to assess the possibility of articulating cross-species vulnerability and its connection to cross-species empathy, where empathy is understood as imaginative...

... Richard Shaviro Steven violence alienation human biopolitics Cockroach Hage empathy entomology Gruen Lori Hage Rawi imagination immigrants as vermin inhuman the Kafka Franz Lolita Nabokov ‘Metamorphosis’ Kafka Sellbach Undine Sleigh Charlotte sovereignty vulnerability shared...

...The Conclusion situates the findings of the book in relation to the current environmental crisis, arguing that effective responses to this crisis demand a plurality of approaches to nonhuman life, rather than an empathy which is restricted to certain living beings. It argues that literature...

... National Geographic Kids and the UK-based Eco Kids Planet – function as a site where empathy, environmental sensitivity, and ecoliteracy can be cultivated. activism childhood Eco Kids Planet ecoliteracy environment intergenerational literacy National Geographic Kids nature periodicals science...

...This book represents the latest advances in cognitive poetics. It builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness that the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as characterisation, tone, empathy...

...This chapter brings early-twentieth-century theories of empathy into dialogue with Ford’s No More Parades and A Man Could Stand Up –. Probing the idea of literary abstraction and rereading art historian Wilhelm Worringer’s Abstraction and Empathy...

...This chapter examines fellow feeling in Ford’s final Tietjens novel, Last Post (1928). In particular, the chapter tracks the ways in which eighteenth-century concepts of sympathy and twentieth-century concepts of empathy come up against each other in Ford’s text. After...

...This book offers a critique of the dominant understanding and deployment of empathy in the mainstream medical humanities. Drawing on feminist theory, it positions empathy not as something that one has or lacks, and needs to accrue, but as something that one does and that is embedded within...