Weik von Mossner, Alexa. <br/><br/>
Cosmopolitan minds :  literature, emotion, and the transnational imagination / 
 Literature, emotion, and the transnational imagination 
by Alexa Weik von Mossner. 
 - First edition.ition 
 - Austin :  University of Texas Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 236 pages) 
 - Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments --  Introduction: Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination --  1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights --  2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck --  3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith --  4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright --  5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles --  Conclusion: (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings? --  Notes --  Bibliography --  Index. 
<br/><br/> "During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers --  "The book explores the role of empathy and emotion in the emergence of cosmopolitan imaginations through the works of a diverse set of American writers who during World War II and the early Cold War period lived in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It draws on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies to offer a new perspective on the affective and imaginative underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism. It argues that our emotional engagements with others -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780292757646 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Cosmopolitanism in literature.<br/>Empathy in literature.<br/>Cognition in literature.<br/>Human rights in literature.<br/>Transnationalism in literature.<br/>Expatriate authors--Psychology.<br/>Expatriate authors--History.<br/>Authors, American--Political and social views.--20th century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374  / .C676 2014