Directions in Empirical Literary Studies
：In honor of Willie van Peer
( Linguistic Approaches to Literature )
Publication subTitle ：In honor of Willie van Peer
Publication series ： Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Author： Sonia Zyngier Marisa Bortolussi Anna Chesnokova Jan Auracher
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2008
E-ISBN: 9789027290625
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027233370
Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation
Language： ENG
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Description
Here is a volume that treats readers to a discovery tour in empirical studies of literature. Words like fragility, sympathy, imagining, metaphors, and novelty, resound in this volume. They police the scope of studies of literature. Stories make us more aware of the real world than any documentary truth. Only through literature can we enter somebody else's feelings. The name for it is compassion. Many of the international experts who contribute here share that goal of unpacking the mechanisms of compassion in stories, often through experiments and text manipulations. Nothing they write is without interest. In this sense, this is more than a Festschrift, and for good reason. You come away from the book with the sense of having caught sight of a beacon.