Pub Date : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.12.1.0054
Joseph R. Worthen
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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Pub Date : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.12.1.0005
Sayers
abstract:The publication of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was scandalous, but few seem to know why. One explanation is that Lolita's sexual content offended readers, and while this is in part true, a thorough analysis of the early reviews and criticism of Lolita between 1955 and 1960 reveals that there were many other reasons for the scandal, including the book's humor, its message, and its style. Despite some objections to the book, many commentators came to its defense, but in their attempts to defend the book from accusations of obscenity or immorality, they consistently adopted a negative view of the character Lolita. This article examines these early interpretive trends and their ethical implications.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.12.1.0038
Gerard Holmes
abstract :Although Emily Dickinson's papers were preserved because of her place in literary history, not her musical knowledge, her engagement with music provides an opportunity to consider pre-twentieth-century fandom. New technologies and established social networks enabled fandom for a young rural woman. For this population more than male and urban audiences, fandom carried social danger, involving not only enthusiasm but discernment and even skepticism. The marketing of Jenny Lind's mid-nineteenth-century tour depended on crafting a public image of the singer as virtuous and philanthropic. Dickinson's letter describing a Lind concert in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1851 critiques this image, transmitted into rural settings by local newspapers. Instead of the enthusiasm of indiscriminate audiences, Dickinson articulates a rurally inflected, judicious, self-selecting "Yankee" fandom.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.12.1.0021
D. Kersten, U. Wilbers
abstract :This article presents the results of an innovative in-depth investigation of the reception of Tom McCarthy's novel C (2010), with the purpose of shedding more light on the use of labels associated with "Modernism" in the interpretation of contemporary British fiction. Focusing on the occurrence of the words "Modernism" and "avant-garde," it combines quantitative analysis and detailed reading in order to answer the question how the two labels are defined when they are used in reference to C. The article aims to make a contribution to the on-going "Metamodernism" debate and its discussion of new developments in art after the demise of Postmodernism. Its main conclusion is that reviewers tend to interpret the two labels historically, which may be a consequence of the novel's setting in time. The research proves how essential it is to study the reception of novels across different cultural realities.
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