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
- Literatures in Dutch
Keywords
19th and 20th-century novel
empathy studies
dutch literature
cognitive literary studies
social criticism
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 .