Search results for ""Author Maria C. Scott""
Edinburgh University Press Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction: Readings in French Realism
This book takes its point of departure in recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, including Theory of Mind. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engagement with fictional stories also teaches us to resist uncritical forms of empathy and reminds us of the limitations of our ability to understand other people. The book treats figures of the stranger in Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir and Sand's Indiana as emblematic of the strangeness of narrative fiction, which both draws us in and keeps us at a distance.
£19.99
Classiques Garnier Stendhal, La Liberte Et Les Heroines Mal Aimees
£41.23
Maney Publishing Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female
In this book, the author challenges the notion that French Realist fiction is peculiarly and intrinsically hostile to female freedom, arguing that it is criticism itself that has marginalized Stendhal's noncompliant heroines and condemned them as self-centred.
£75.32
