Auteur: Jennifer Marston William

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance. While Walter B …

This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies—namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and em …

Theory of Mind is what enables us to ‘put ourselves in another’s shoes.’ It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another’s perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticat …

The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation of power, has an extensive history of iterations such as the male gaze (Mulvey), the oppositional gaze …

By exploring the concept of the ’tender gaze’ in German film, theater, and literature, this volume’s contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behav …

Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological mod …