Francesca DE AGNOI

Position
PhD Student
E-mail
francesca.deagnoi@unive.it
837409@stud.unive.it
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/francesca.deagnoi (personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc

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Publication highlights

De Agnoi, Francesca Nice Characters Finish Last: BoJack Horseman, Tyler Durden, and the Poetics of Negative Empathy in MHRA WORKING PAPERS IN THE HUMANITIES, vol. 20, pp. 14-24 (ISSN 1994-8662)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5108049


DE AGNOI F. The Powers of Catharsis: Aestheticizing Freudian Taboos through Negative Empathy in TRANSILVANIA, vol. 2024, pp. 20-31 (ISSN 0255-0539)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5091027


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Curriculum vitae

Francesca De Agnoi is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Aesthetics at the University of Milan and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her research explores the cathartic potential of negative empathy across postmodernist fiction and narrative video games, investigating how affective engagement with morally ambiguous narratives fosters emotional intensity, aesthetic appreciation, and sustained attention. Bridging critical theory, game studies, and reception theory, she employs qualitative empirical methods, cognitive poetics, and affect studies to examine contemporary media aesthetics. Her research interests include narrative empathy, affect studies, psychoanalytic approaches to literature, the sublime, intermediality, and empirical aesthetics.

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