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Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language

Webinar, 5-6 octobre 2023

Organisé par : Vittorio Gallese, David Romand, and Hannah Wojciehowski

For three decades, the question of the role played by empathy in the aesthetic apprehension of language, and notably in the experience of literature, has been the topic of a growing number of studies. A joint project of the University of Parma, Aix-Marseille University and the University of Texas at Austin, this two-day webinar brings together thirteen experts – philosophers, literary theorists, neuroscientists, psychologists, historians – whose contributions will be published in two special issues of Texas Studies for Literature and Language (TSLL). Taken together, the talks proposed aim at offering an updated and encompassing discussion of recent, but also older research in the field. The webinar intends to address the question of empathy and the aesthetics of language from a cross-disciplinary and cross-methodological perspective, by giving room to both theoretical and empirical approaches and tackling the concept of empathy in all its semantic diversity. The place of empathy in the aesthetic experience of language and literature, the nature and variety of literary and narrative empathy, the involvement of aesthetic empathy in reading, hearing, speaking, and writing, the role of emotions/feelings in literary empathetic experience, the empathological reassessment of narratological categories, and the early 20th-century origins of literary empathy studies are some of the core issues that will be discussed.

TEAMS link: http://tinyurl.com/yeyp8rn4


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Camille FAIVRE (15 septembre 2023). Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language. Les carnets d'HTL. Consulté le 25 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m9i7


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