American philosopher who has worked on emotional response to fiction — particularly the pleasures of tragedy — and on empathy and imagination in aesthetic experience.
Reading with Feeling: empathy and imagination in literature. Developed the meta-response theory of tragic pleasure: the pleasure is not in the suffering depicted but in our capacity for appropriate emotional response to it.
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