Geometries of Empathy
Modernism, Attention, and the Contemporary Novel
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2025. november 20.
- ISBN 9780198983316
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem208 oldal
- Méret 223x145x18 mm
- Súly 381 g
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Geometries of Empathy offers a new take on the contemporary Anglophone novel through the much-contested problem of empathy. It engages with a wide range of novels from the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show the ways in which writers are deeply informed by modernist ideas about self-other and subject-object relations.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
What does it mean to empathize today?
Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'express character.' But to what extent can the novel capture the 'unlimited capacity and infinite variety' of other minds and lives?
By revealing the origins of the term 'empathy' in modernist aesthetics, Ágota Márton offers a radical new perspective on the contemporary novel. Translated into English in 1908 from the German Einfühlung, empathy did not initially mean sharing or understanding the feelings of another human. It described imaginative projection into a work of art or an object. Empathy implied unknowability, un-ownability. Hesitancy and withholding, even self-erasure, become intrinsic to understanding the outer world.
This aesthetic phenomenology profoundly informed modernist experiments in the novel. But it is also deeply relevant to post-millennial fiction. Through explicit dialogue with their modernist predecessors, novelists such as Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk, Amit Chaudhuri, and Ciaran Carson experiment with attentional modes that test the scale and sources, the very possibility, of empathic exchange. In their work, there are no fixed subject positions; transparent access to others is impossible. This volume shows how empathy with others must instead be mediated through geometrical shapes and forms: circles, lines, rectangles, surfaces, symmetries, prisms of attention. Sculpting new modes of detached immersion, these novelists are rethinking what it means to 'make space' for the other.
Geometries of Empathy offers an excellent analysis of the problem of empathy through the fresh lens of attentional geometry. By analysing how selected twenty-first-century writers negotiate strategies from their modernist predecessors, the book explores how a wide range of aesthetic approaches can contribute productive modes of attentiveness. The result is an impressive exploration of how architectural, mathematical, musical, and object-oriented concepts can provide resources for ongoing debates about what literary empathy can or should entail.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction: Vital Geometries: Modernist Empathy in Contemporary Fiction
"Expanding Circles" of Empathy: Perspectival Frames and Modernist Milieus in Ian McEwan's Novels
"The Story Was the Price You Paid for the Rhythm": The Randomness and Symmetry of Empathy in Zadie Smith
Looking "Closer into Things": Ciaran Carson's Empathetic Encyclopaedism
Attempts at Unselfing: Rachel Cusk's and Amit Chaudhuri's Detached Empathies
Conclusion: Modernist Exercises in Attention
