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Project
Between compassion and solidarity. Constellations of empathy in novels of social criticism (1848-1980)
The project examines the construction of empathy in Flemish novels of social criticism (1848-1980). The corpus consists of novels which strategically evoke empathy for and within the working class to criticize perceived social injustice. A cognitive and narratological analysis of these constellations of empathy allows us to chart the developments and the coherence of this strong tradition of social criticism .
Date:1 Jan 2016 → 31 Oct 2020
Keywords:19th and 20th-century novel, empathy studies, dutch literature, cognitive literary studies, social criticism
Disciplines:Other languages and literary studies, Literatures in Dutch, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Language studies, Theatre and performance, Theory and methodology of language studies, Literary studies