Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel 9781618116758

This far-ranging study develops Morson’s concept of “prosaics,” which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One. Overture
Chapter One. What Is Prosaics?
Part Two. What Is Open Time?
Chapter Two. Narrativeness
Chapter Three. The Prosaics of Process
Part Three. What Is Misanthropology?
Chapter Four. Misanthropology: Voyeurism and Human Nature
Chapter Five. Misanthropology, Continued: Disgust, Violence, and More on Voyeurism
Chapter Six. Misanthropology in Verse: An Onegin of Our Times
Part Four. What Is Literary Education?
Chapter Seven: Novelistic Empathy, and How to Teach It
Part Five. What Is Wit?
Chapter Eight: Contingency, Games, and Wit
Index

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