Griswold, Wendy (Fellow, 2017–18; Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University)
Griswold recalls how a childhood encounter with a sentimental, “middlebrow” poem about a dog and a veteran (which makes her cry to this day) tapped into wells of empathy. She explains how such responses to aesthetic experiences, so often downplayed in academic inquiry, deserve our sustained attention—and even respect.
Subjects
Fiction and Poetry / Poetry / American Literature / Emotions / Middle Class / Reading /
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