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100 1 _aWeik von Mossner, Alexa.
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245 1 0 _aCosmopolitan minds :
_bliterature, emotion, and the transnational imagination /
_cby Alexa Weik von Mossner.
246 3 0 _aLiterature, emotion, and the transnational imagination
250 _aFirst edition.ition
260 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c(c)2014.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 236 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aCognitive approaches to literature and culture series
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505 0 0 _aMachine generated contents note: Acknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination --
_t1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights --
_t2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck --
_t3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith --
_t4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright --
_t5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles --
_tConclusion: (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings? --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex.
520 0 _a"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 --
_cProvided by publisher.
520 0 _a"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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650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCosmopolitanism in literature.
650 0 _aEmpathy in literature.
650 0 _aCognition in literature.
650 0 _aHuman rights in literature.
650 0 _aTransnationalism in literature.
650 0 _aExpatriate authors
_xPsychology.
650 0 _aExpatriate authors
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_y20th century
_xPolitical and social views.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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