Feeling bad for the Bad. An Empathetic Reading of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God"


Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2013

28 Pages, Grade: 1,0


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Contents:

1.Introduction

2.Variations of a Feeling: Empathy, Sympathy and Compassion
2.1 Requirements for Empathy
2.2 Empathy for the Antagonist

3.Challenges of Empathic Readings
3.1 Empathizing with Lester Ballard
3.2 Lester’s Empathy

4.Conclusion

Bibliography

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Title
Feeling bad for the Bad. An Empathetic Reading of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God"
College
Free University of Berlin  (John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies)
Course
Cormac McCarthy in Context
Grade
1,0
Author
Year
2013
Pages
28
Catalog Number
V307276
ISBN (eBook)
9783668052888
ISBN (Book)
9783668052895
File size
553 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Cormac McCarthy, Child of God, Empathy, problematic reading, literary analysis, character analyis, theory, definition empathy, sociology, philosophy, psychology, lester ballard, protagonist child of god, reader identification
Quote paper
Alena Saucke (Author), 2013, Feeling bad for the Bad. An Empathetic Reading of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/307276

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