Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Dedication v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Sympathy and narrative
7. 1. Believable fictions 9
8. 2. Defining sympathy 23
9. 3. Forms of persuasion 47
10. Part II. Literary critical and empirical case studies
11. 4. Varieties of narrative sympathy 63
12. 5. Shades of sympathy 89
13. 6. Sympathetic “grotesque” 125
14. Part III. Sympathy in the classroom
15. 7. Narrative as experience 153
16. 8. Conclusion 165
17. References 173
18. Index 187