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posted on 2019-04-03, 17:43 authored by Patrick CattryssePatrick Cattrysse
This paper argues that to adopt a "naturalized morals" perspective, and to match it with narrative studies, may help advance the study of empathy and its relation to multi-cultural ethics within the larger study of audience involvement. Firstly, different texts may convey different morals, and therefore require different audiences adhering to different morals in order to obtain a preferred or negotiated reading. This invites us to reconsider some old concepts (e.g. anti-hero) as well as some newer ones (e.g. the "bad fan"). Secondly, if studies of empathy tend to focus on character (dis)liking, narratologists generally adopt a wider view, involving multiple narrative agents including real makers, implied makers, narrator(s), narratee(s), implied audience(s) and real audience(s). Adopting this wider view allows for a more refined study of empathy that may play (or not) as a more diversified phenomenon at multiple levels. Thirdly, empathy is not the only player in this game. A brief introduction to phenomena such as prank culture and hate reading/watching suggests that a study of empathy needs to look also at some competitors in the field of audience involvement.

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patrick.cattrysse@telenet.be

Lead author country

  • Belgium

Lead author job role

  • Higher Education Faculty 4-yr College

Lead author institution

Universiteit Antwerpen - Universitté Libre de Bruxelles

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