On sympathy
By: Sophie Ratcliffe.
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780199239870
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Sympathy in literature; Authors and readers; Literature and morals; Reader-response criticism; Books and reading -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding sympathy and sympathetic understanding; title: Brownings strangeness; title: W.H. Auden : 'as mirrors are lonely'; title: Samuel Beckett : 'humanity in ruins'; title: Epilogue : sympathy now.