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Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm zählt zu den meistdiskutierten Dichtungen des deutschen Hochmittelalters. Die Forschung ist sich bis heute nicht einig, inwieweit dieser Text als Plädoyer für Kreuzzugsideologie, für Toleranz oder gar für Menschlichkeit zu lesen ist. Außerdem kämpft man ebenfalls bis heute mit dem schwer fassbaren, scheinbar widersprüchlichen Helden Willehalm. Das vorliegende Werk sieht einen Schlüssel zu diesen bedeutenden Fragen im empathielenkenden Potential bestimmter Textstrukturen in Bezug auf den mittelalterlichen Rezipienten: Wie, wann und für vermag der Text dessen Empathie, Mitleid oder gar Sympathie zu wecken? Mit wem fühlte, weinte und lachte der mittelalterliche Hörer oder Leser? Ergibt sich auf diesem Wege ein kohärentes Bild der fremden Heiden und des umstrittenen Helden? Über die Untersuchung des wolframschen Willehalm, seines altfranzösischen Vorlagentextes Aliscans und einer spätmittelalterlichen Stoffbearbeitung Hystoria von dem wirdigen ritter sant Wilhelm erweist sich das in der Forschungsarbeit präsentierte Analysemodell als praktikabler und gewinnbringender Zugang zu mittelalterlichen Texten: Alternative Lesarten können aufgezeigt werden, und die Sonderstellung des wolframschen Werkes erscheint am Ende in neuem Licht.

German literature --- Empathy in literature. --- Sympathy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Wolfram, --- Empathy. --- Willehalm. --- compassion. --- reception (literature). --- sympathy.

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In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with metaphor and other figurative language. The underlying faculty, Cohen argues, is the same--simply the ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly is not. In an engaging style, Cohen explores this idea by examining various occasions for identifying with others, including reading fiction, enjoying sports, making moral arguments, estimating one's future self, and imagining how one appears to others. Using many literary examples, Cohen argues that we can engage with fictional characters just as intensely as we do with real people, and he looks at some of the ways literature itself takes up the question of interpersonal identification and understanding. An original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life, Thinking of Others is an important contribution to philosophy and literary theory.

Empathy. --- Metaphor. --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Caring --- Emotions --- Social psychology --- Sympathy --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Empathy --- Metaphor --- Literary semiotics --- Psychological study of literature

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Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings-literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.

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