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from Part III - The Author–Reader Channel across Time, Gender, Sex and Race
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
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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