It is obvious as follows.

1. Stream of consciousness writers, such as marguerite duras (Lover, etc. ), Virginia Woolf (Voyage, etc. ), Proust (recalling the past), James Joyce (Ulysses) ... they pay more attention to people's hearts.

2. It should be noted that some writers, influenced by Freud and Jungian psychology, describe the characters' hearts delicately, such as Zweig (a letter from an unknown woman), and I also know the painter Dali. (Note that some people are anti-Freudians, but they also pay attention to the characters' psychology, such as Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita. )

3. Existentialism and its variants (black humor, absurd drama). Existentialists deny the cognitive function of art and think that works of art can not reflect reality, but can only reveal people's spiritual impulses to a certain extent, endow people with the ability to "enjoy" and feel, and make people's irrational feelings clear. They believe that the purpose of artists is to create their own world and express their philosophical thoughts and feelings, rather than artistically reproduce the objective world. Under the domination of this thought, the main content of existential literature is often to describe the dark psychology of individuals in the absurd world, such as loneliness, disappointment and infinite fear. Representative figures are Kafka and Camus (The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, etc. ) and Beckett (waiting for Godot).

There are many schools of modernist literature, but what is certain is that they pay more attention to people's hearts than classical literature. Compared with realistic literature, romantic literature should also pay attention to people (here generally refers to all heroes and gods) themselves.

In addition to the rejection of human nature during the reign of the church, the history of western literature basically began to pay attention to people's own and hearts from the Renaissance. These are just the most typical representatives.

I hope your family's words will help you.