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3. Forms of persuasion

Narrative approaches to the construction of reader sympathy
  • Howard Sklar
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The Art of Sympathy in Fiction
This chapter is in the book The Art of Sympathy in Fiction
© 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company

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
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.15.06ch3

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
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