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Narrative Fiction, Experience-Taking, and Progressive Male Standpoints
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 3, September 2014
- pp. 141-157
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0027
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay explores the narrative strategies of Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve and John Fowles’s The Magus. The essay argues that, by encouraging and then deterring what social psychologists call readers’ “experience-taking,” the novels compel readers to entertain the protagonists’ progressive standpoints and to interrogate problematic gender norms.