Code
01N01216
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 October 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Literatures in Dutch
Keywords
19th and 20th-century novel
empathy studies
dutch literature
cognitive literary studies
social criticism
19th Century
20th Century
Dutch
Belgium
Western Europe
Literary studies
Project description
The project examines the construction of empathy in Flemish novels of social criticism (1848-1980). The corpus consists of novels which strategically evoke empathy for and within the working class to criticize perceived social injustice. A cognitive and narratological analysis of these constellations of empathy allows us to chart the developments and the coherence of this strong tradition of social criticism .