TY - JOUR A1 - Friedrichsen, Dennis T1 - Evoking empathy in Miéville's "Perdido Street Station" T2 - Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft N2 - The object of this paper is to further understand how reading literature increases capacity for empathy, and how narratives positively influence human beings. This will be done via a close reading of China Miéville's "Perdido Street Station" with particular focus on the character Yagharek whose tragic situation and journey provides a starting point for a discussion about empathy. The question is whether speculative fiction can be more capable of triggering empathy than other genres. In his analysis Dennis Friedrichsen demonstrates the ways in which fantasy literature creates an effective distance to the real world in order to negotiate complicated issues of morality, ethics and empathy. KW - Miéville, China KW - Miéville, China: Perdido Street Station KW - Einfühlung KW - Leser KW - Spekulative Fiktion Y1 - 2019 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58128 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-581281 SN - 978-3-8498-1637-7 SN - 978-3-8498-1386-4 SN - 978-3-8498-1387-1 SN - 1432-5306 VL - 2018 SP - 195 EP - 207 PB - Aisthesis CY - Bielefeld ER -