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  • Far From the Madding Crowd

    Gabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union. ... Read more

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  • Literature as a Lens for Climate Change

    Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation

    Each chapter in this collection offers a practical approach for using literature to engage and empower students to confront aspects of climate crises. Educators from different backgrounds and parts of the world share their experience using novels, short stories, drama, poetry, and nonfiction to help students understand the causes and consequences of climate change as well as how they can ... Read more

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  • Empathy and Reading

    Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader

    by Suzanne Keen ...
    This pioneering collection brings together Suzanne Keen’s extensive body of work on empathy and reading, charting the development of narrative empathy as an area of inquiry in its own right and extending cross-disciplinary conversations about empathy evoked by reading.The volume offers a brief overview of the trajectory of research following the 2007 publication of Empathy and the Novel, with ... Read more

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  • Empathy and the Novel

    by Suzanne Keen ...
    Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen ... Read more

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  • Narrative Form

    Revised and Expanded Second Edition

    by Suzanne Keen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. ... Read more

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  • The Sun Also Rises

    Enriched edition. A Lost Generation Classic of 1920s Expatriates, Post-War Disillusionment, and the Pamplona Bullfights

    In 'The Sun Also Rises,' Ernest Hemingway encapsulates the disillusionment of the post-World War I Lost Generation through the lens of expatriate characters navigating the vibrant yet melancholic landscapes of Europe. Written in Hemingway's distinctive terse prose, the novel features a stunning blend of realism and existential reflection, as it follows the lives of American and British expatriates ... Read more

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    But for a recent occurrence I should certainly not be telling the story of a friend, or, rather, I should say, of two friends of mine. What that occurrence was I will not here indicate - it is unnecessary; but it has not been without its effect upon my life and plans. If it be asked by those who may read these pages under what circumstances it became possible for me to acquire such familiarity ... Read more

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    The third published novel of D.H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and a budding artist. Generally, it is not only considered as an evocative portrayal of working-class life in a mining community, but also an intense study of family, class and early sexual relationships. ... Read more

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