{"title":"Psychology of a Biographical Novel: Narrative Empathy in Poniatowska's Leonora","authors":"Ayelet Ishai","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0030","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the representation of Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) in Elena Poniatowska's biographical novel Leonora. Considered through the lens of interdisciplinary cognitive literary studies, my analysis focuses on the narrative properties which make the novel effective in promoting character identification and reader empathy.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"103 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0030","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article examines the representation of Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) in Elena Poniatowska's biographical novel Leonora. Considered through the lens of interdisciplinary cognitive literary studies, my analysis focuses on the narrative properties which make the novel effective in promoting character identification and reader empathy.