TY - BOOK AU - Weik von Mossner,Alexa TI - Cosmopolitan minds: literature, emotion, and the transnational imagination T2 - Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series SN - 9780292757646 AV - PS374 .C676 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Cosmopolitanism in literature KW - Empathy in literature KW - Cognition in literature KW - Human rights in literature KW - Transnationalism in literature KW - Expatriate authors KW - Psychology KW - History KW - Authors, American KW - Political and social views KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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 -- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=802038&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -