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Humanidades (Montevideo. En línea)
versión impresa ISSN 1510-5024versión On-line ISSN 2301-1629
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VINCI, Elisabetha. Empathy and literary reading: the case of Fräulein Else’s interior monologue. Humanidades (Montevideo. En línea) [online]. 2019, n.6, pp.133-151. Epub 01-Dic-2019. ISSN 1510-5024. https://doi.org/10.25185/6.5.
This contribution is aimed at analyzing how empathy is instantiated when we read works of fiction and at studying which elements can improve the consonance between characters and readers. Starting from a brief summary about empathy with regard to literary texts, the paper examines the question concerning human reception of fictional characters in order to investigate how we empathize with them through the description of some elements which foster empathy: internal focalization, interior monologue and movement description. Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler will serve as case study of empathic reading.
Palabras clave : empathy; literature; reading; fictional characters; interior monologue.