Empathy in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. And the Relevance of Focalization and Free Indirect Dis...

Книга "Empathy in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. And the Relevance of Focalization and Free Indirect Discourse". Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: By immersing in a narrative, the readers' empathic imagination is encouraged, which leads to the process of accompanying characters or the narrator throughout the plot and seeing things from their perspectives, including any issue-influencing circumstances or occurrences whatsoever. Theories of art reception claim that people, readers and even cinema visitors, perceive and experience fiction 'through' the characters themselves, which, as a consequence, makes people relate to them and sympathetically take part in their experiences and actions. Literary fiction, therefore, can serve as an experiment, by which the reader either generates propinquity or distance towards certain characters or events. Different literary techniques prompt...