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Title: | Negative empathy in narrative: humanizing evil in In Cold Blood and Les bienveillantes |
Author: | Baila-Bigné, Sara |
Director/Tutor: | Alsina, Cristina |
Keywords: | Empatia Anàlisi del discurs narratiu Treballs de fi de màster Empathy Narrative discourse analysis Capote, Truman, 1924-1984. In cold blood Littell, Jonathan, 1967-. Les bienveillantes Master's theses |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Abstract: | Prompted by the critical void in affect theory about how literary affects are created, the present MA thesis aims to analyse the emotional response to negative empathy precisely as a literary narratological construction. To do so, drawing on L. Doležel’s conception of the theory of mimesis as a “possible-world semantics” and on the subsequent understanding of fictional narratives as “parasocial” worlds (Oatley), the main body of this MA thesis will consist on a narratological analysis of T. Capote’s In Cold Blood and J. Littell’s Les bienveillantes. This examination of both novels focuses on the literary devices ―which I have called “empathic builders” ― that promote an empathic engagement with negative characters. On the one hand, it reveals in-text negative empathy to be a formal phenomenon with a material dimension; on the other hand, it exemplifies the capacity of literary texts to enlarge the reader’s affective and empathic capacity |
Note: | Màster Oficial en Construcció i Representació d'Identitats Culturals (CRIC), Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2019-2020, Tutora: Cristina Alsina Rísquez |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/172140 |
Appears in Collections: | Màster Oficial - Construcció i Representació d'Identitats Culturals (CRIC) |
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