Reading the Suffering of Others. The Ethical Possibilities of ›Empathic Unsettlement‹

Koopman, Emy

doi:10.1515/jlt.2010.015

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“…The literature classroom includes all sorts of written fictional texts, for instance, stories, novels, poetry, drama, song texts, and so forth. The term fictional text refers to texts in which characters are “not presented as existing in the real world” (Koopman, 2016, p. 106). The world these characters inhabit does not exist in reality but may function as a safe abstraction and simulation of the real world (Mar & Oatley, 2008).…”

Section: Fictional and Literary Textsmentioning

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Gaining Insight Into Human Nature: A Review of Literature Classroom Intervention Studies

Schrijvers¹,

Janssen

Fialho

et al. 2018

Review of Educational Research

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In this review, we explore whether and how literature education may foster adolescent students' insight into human nature. A systematic search of five databases was complemented with citation tracking, hand searches, and expert consultation. We included 13 experimental and quasi-experimental intervention studies. Methodological quality and quality-of-intervention descriptions were assessed. Analysis of empirical support for expected intervention effects indicated that, under certain conditions, literature education may foster students' insight into human nature. One intervention affected students' insight into themselves, two affected their understanding of fictional others, and six affected their understanding of, views on, or intended behavior toward real-world others. Subsequent analysis of interventions with full or partial empirical support yielded instructional design principles on (a) text selection; (b) activating, annotating, and reflecting on personal life and reading experiences in writing activities; and (c) verbally sharing these experiences with others in exploratory dialogues. Limitations and implications for future studies are discussed.

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Section: Fictional and Literary Textsmentioning

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Gaining Insight Into Human Nature: A Review of Literature Classroom Intervention Studies

Schrijvers¹,

Janssen

Fialho

et al. 2018

Review of Educational Research

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“…In two recent experimental studies within my dissertation research project, Reading Suffering: An Empirical Inquiry Into Empathic and Reflective Responses to Literary Narratives (Koopman, 2016b), I tried to take into account both reader and text characteristics, and the interaction between these. Both studies presented readers with a text and a questionnaire.…”

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“…Subsequently, I will discuss the results of two studies into reading and empathy I recently conducted, which tried to differentiate between effects of literariness, narrativity, and fictionality, while taking into account important reader variables (Koopman, 2015, 2016a). As will become clear, we are still quite a long way from knowing when and how (literary) reading has an effect on empathic understanding for others (Koopman, 2016b; Mumper & Gerrig, 2017). Although I will provide suggestions of how future studies can tackle this issue, I also wonder whether this is a question that empirical literary scholars can and want to answer completely.…”

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Does Originality Evoke Understanding? The Relation between Literary Reading and Empathy

Koopman

2018

Review of General Psychology

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It is easy enough to theorize about the impact of literary reading on empathic reactions, but to empirically prove such effects is more difficult. This article provides a concise overview of the theoretical and empirical evidence that literary reading has an effect on empathy (in its multiple forms), distinguishing between the effects of literariness, narrativity and fictionality. Subsequently, it discusses the results of 2 recently conducted studies into reading and empathic understanding. As will become clear, we are still quite a long way from knowing when and how (literary) reading has an effect on empathy for others. Suggestions are offered how future studies can tackle this issue.

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“…If participants failed to answer two or more questions from the comprehension check per story correctly, they were rejected from further analysis. Lastly, participants filled out the Author Recognition Test (ART, Stanovich & West, 1989;Koopman, 2010), measuring reading experience.…”

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“…Author Recognition Test (ART, Stanovich & West, 1989;Koopman, 2010). This test contains a list of 42 authors, 12 of which are fake.…”

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Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

Vries

Reijnierse

Willems

2018

SSOL

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Metaphors occur frequently in literary texts. Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT; e.g.,Steen, 2017) proposes that metaphors that serve a communicative functionasmetaphor are radically different from metaphors that do not have this function. We investigated differences in processing between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphors, compared to non-metaphorical words in literary reading. Using the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (Reijnierse et al., 2018), we identified metaphors in two literary stories. Then, eye-tracking was used to investigate participants’ (N = 72) reading behavior. Deliberate metaphors were read slower than non-deliberate metaphors, and both metaphor types were read slower than non-metaphorical words. Differences were controlled for several psycholinguistic variables. Differences in reading behavior were related to individual differences in reading experience and absorption and appreciation of the story. These results are in line with predictions from DMT and underline the importance of distinguishing between metaphor types in the experimental study of literary reading.

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Reading the Suffering of Others. The Ethical Possibilities of ›Empathic Unsettlement‹

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

Gaining Insight Into Human Nature: A Review of Literature Classroom Intervention Studies

Gaining Insight Into Human Nature: A Review of Literature Classroom Intervention Studies

Does Originality Evoke Understanding? The Relation between Literary Reading and Empathy

Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

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