Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature John B. Black

Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature John B. BlackEmpathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical, generic and geographic continuum. The book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies to offer new readings of popularly taught literary texts and discuss their relation to empathy.

Clearly written and liberally illustrated chapters show writing text as akin to creating a drawing or painting

This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy

including the two best-known plays

Like many others

the use of photography as a documentary medium and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city

Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies

maintainable software systems

spending the rest of his days describing the means by which God’s successor—the “Superman”—can be found within

This single volume

but it also communicates a set of values

even as we turn away in revulsion from many of the things they do

the imperative project of revoicing lesbian silence and female companionship is complicated by the lack of and/or complex representation of such women in the past