Suspicious Minds–Rita Felski
A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and Emotions–Blakey Vermeule
How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic Bias: Elizabeth Gaskell's Empathy across Social Difference–Mary-Catherine Harrison
On Being Moved: Sympathy, Mobility, and Narrative Form–Miranda Burgess
Emotions and the Structuring of Narrative Responses–David S. Miall
Empathetic Hardy: Bounded, Ambassadorial, and Broadcast Strategies of Narrative Empathy–Suzanne Keen
New Books at a Glance
Le Style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire
Guillemette Bolens, Le Style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire. Lausanne: Editions BHMS, 2008. xiii + 152 pp.–Richard Waswo
The Philosophy of Literature
Peter Lamarque, The Philosophy of Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009. xi + 329 pp.–Eyal Segal
Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot
Viktor Shklovsky, Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot, translated by Shushan Avagyan. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. ix + 428 pp.–Eyal Segal
Literature and Cinematography
Viktor Shklovsky, Literature and Cinematography, translated by Irina Masinovsky, with an introduction by Richard Sheldon. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008. xvii + 74 pp.–Eyal Segal