{"title":"A Little Life and Empathy Aptitude Reading","authors":"Joseph R. Worthen","doi":"10.5325/reception.12.1.0054","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract :Reading literary fiction has long enjoyed a reputation as a constructive habit in American culture. It has been believed, at different times, to improve learnedness, social mobility, and even allay individual suffering as a type of therapy. This article examines one of the newest phases of reading as self-improvement: reading for the development of empathetic aptitude. Examining Goodreads reviews for Hanya Yanagihara's 2015 novel A Little Life reveals patterns in reader assumptions about the value of empathy to reading and points to a new paradigm catalyzed by Kidd and Castano's 2013 study, \"Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind.\" Through a comprehensive interrogation of reader reviews and relevant scholarship, this article engages the characteristics, shortcomings, and future implications of the empathy aptitude reading.","PeriodicalId":40584,"journal":{"name":"Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History","volume":"66 1","pages":"54 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.12.1.0054","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract :Reading literary fiction has long enjoyed a reputation as a constructive habit in American culture. It has been believed, at different times, to improve learnedness, social mobility, and even allay individual suffering as a type of therapy. This article examines one of the newest phases of reading as self-improvement: reading for the development of empathetic aptitude. Examining Goodreads reviews for Hanya Yanagihara's 2015 novel A Little Life reveals patterns in reader assumptions about the value of empathy to reading and points to a new paradigm catalyzed by Kidd and Castano's 2013 study, "Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind." Through a comprehensive interrogation of reader reviews and relevant scholarship, this article engages the characteristics, shortcomings, and future implications of the empathy aptitude reading.
在美国文化中，阅读文学小说一直被认为是一种有益的习惯。在不同的时期，它被认为可以提高学习能力、社会流动性，甚至可以作为一种治疗方法来减轻个人的痛苦。本文探讨了阅读作为自我提升的一个最新阶段:为培养移情能力而阅读。对Goodreads对柳原雅(Hanya Yanagihara) 2015年出版的小说《小生活》(A Little Life)的评论进行了研究，揭示了读者对移情对阅读价值的假设模式，并指出了基德和卡斯塔诺2013年的研究“阅读文学小说改善心智理论”所催化的新范式。本文通过对读者评论和相关学术研究的综合研究，探讨了共情能力倾向阅读的特点、不足及其对未来的影响。
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Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.
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