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Reading sympathy: Identity and relat...

McCarthy, Thomas John.

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Reading sympathy: Identity and relationship in English Romanticism.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Reading sympathy: Identity and relationship in English Romanticism./
作者:	McCarthy, Thomas John.
面頁冊數:	326 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: A, page: 3922.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-11A.
標題:	Literature, English. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9307584

Reading sympathy: Identity and relationship in English Romanticism.
McCarthy, Thomas John.

Reading sympathy: Identity and relationship in English Romanticism. - 326 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: A, page: 3922.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1992.

The Romantics' belief in sympathy profoundly affected the way literature was written and read at the time. With its emphasis on the Self entering into the mental and emotional experience of the Other, sympathy came to be regarded in the Romantic period as the source of artistic capacity, aesthetic insight and interpersonal understanding. Much critical theory of the past quarter century has regarded as naive the idea of literature as self-expression, thus overlooking the Romantics' conception of reading as an intimate and sympathetic encounter. Reasserting the importance of applying Romantic critical tenets to Romantic texts, I argue that understanding and emotion should have a vital place in present-day thinking about Romantic literature.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a For the English Romantics reading and writing were intensely personal experiences. Contemporary periodical reviews illustrate how Romantic ideals centered around establishing an intimacy between author/poet and reader based on the same psychological and emotional phenomena which characterize personal relationships. My analysis of the components of sympathy as defined by twentieth-century psychotherapy, philosophy and sociology reveals that sympathy is the foundation of all understanding and all relationship. Using Schleiermacher as a paradigm, I explore the ways in which sympathy makes possible both self-expressive writing and the psychological hermeneutic it engenders.
520 $a A craving for greater intimacy with writers in this period meant that genres in which the writer was assumed to be freely expressing himself were particularly compelling to readers. The dissertation analyzes examples of the diary, the letter, the autobiography and the lyric, arguing that these genres most closely duplicate and enact the psychology of human relationships. Not only do they demonstrate the impact of sympathy on the speaking "I," but they also implicitly demand the reader's sympathy. Each of these four chapters examines Romantic literary and hermeneutic conventions through the lens of recent psychological principles. I examine works by the Wordsworths, Byron, Lamb, Shelley, Coleridge, Burns and several lesser-known figures. Each genre-study illuminates a different way in which the writing and reading of Romantic literature were steeped in the emotional and psychological dynamics of sympathy.
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