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Details
Title
On sympathy / Sophie Ratcliffe.
Created/published
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description
xi, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Oxford English monographs
Summary
Taking Shakespeare as its starting point, this book examines why and how we read poetry, how we relate to fictional characters, and whether reading is good for you. It also focuses on key works by Browning, Auden, and Beckett, and concludes with a critique of contemporary ideas about art, sympathy, and community.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-261) and index.
Contents
Understanding sympathy and sympathetic understanding
Brownings strangeness
W.H. Auden : 'as mirrors are lonely'
Samuel Beckett : 'humanity in ruins'
Epilogue : sympathy now.
Brownings strangeness
W.H. Auden : 'as mirrors are lonely'
Samuel Beckett : 'humanity in ruins'
Epilogue : sympathy now.
Series
Oxford English monographs.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.
Item Details
Call number
PR149.S95 R37 2008
Folger accession
266975