Book contents
- The Stylistics of ‘You’
- The Stylistics of ‘You’
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Theorising the ‘You Effects’
- PART I Singularising and Sharing
- PART II The Role of ‘You’ in the Writing of Traumatic Events
- Part III The Author–Reader Channel across Time, Gender, Sex and Race
- 6 Two Ways of Conversing with the Reader
- 7 Empathy for Sexual Minorities in Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett ()
- 8 The Ethics and Politics of the Second Person in ‘Postcolonial’ Writing
- PART IV New Ways of Implicating Through the Digital Medium?
- References
- Index
7 - Empathy for Sexual Minorities in Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett ()
from Part III - The Author–Reader Channel across Time, Gender, Sex and Race
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
- The Stylistics of ‘You’
- The Stylistics of ‘You’
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Theorising the ‘You Effects’
- PART I Singularising and Sharing
- PART II The Role of ‘You’ in the Writing of Traumatic Events
- Part III The Author–Reader Channel across Time, Gender, Sex and Race
- 6 Two Ways of Conversing with the Reader
- 7 Empathy for Sexual Minorities in Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett ()
- 8 The Ethics and Politics of the Second Person in ‘Postcolonial’ Writing
- PART IV New Ways of Implicating Through the Digital Medium?
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 7 deals with the resurgence of the traditional conversational mode in Neil Bartlett’s twenty-first-century novel, Skin Lane, which, associated with a most unique use of generic ‘you’, favours strategic empathy for a certain Mr F, suffering from repressed desire for a young man. It shows how the technique can be exploited as a pragmatic possibility to reach the reader’s attention anew. Although approached inParts I and II, this chapter more thoroughly investigates the notion of strategic empathy (drawing from specialists on the matter in literary studies and in socio-cognition research), as Bartlett subtly but strongly guides our ethical reaction (in the manner of Fielding) and brings us to align with the second-person pronoun (in the manner of Brontë).
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- The Stylistics of ‘You'Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects, pp. 154 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022