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Sep 21, 2020 · Rather, fictional narratives provide the reader with an experience on which to reflect and discern meaning. When readers read fiction, they know they are encountering human-constructed characters, settings, and situations.
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Mar 24, 2016 · Reading fiction does not necessarily challenge the sovereignty of the subject; it may also expand the subject’s realm and enhance its autonomy. Nussbaum and Rorty would have no trouble sharing this conclusion; it sounds as a summary of their arguments in favour of the political significance of the novel.
- Kees Vuyk
- 2015
Oct 21, 2021 · Fiction reading experiences were associated with deep understandings of the real world, both in terms of providing access to lived experiences, and in terms of illuminating social and historical contexts.
- Helena Hollis
- 2021
- Why Development Is About More Than Economics
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International development studies cries out for a literary component precisely because it is such an ideological and normative subject. “Development” is itself a term that should demand ideological evaluation. It is more than economics. This is made clear by the UN’s Millennium and SustainableDevelopment Goals. These reiterate that “development” al...
This isn’t to suggest that such novels are stand-ins for “native informants”, who are perceived to be experts about a culture, race or place simply because they belong to it. Quite the contrary. They should be read as literature, which literary critics like Mikhail Bakhtindescribe as a jumble of competing viewpoints depending on language that alway...
The end state of “development,” which is implied but hardly ever explicitly theorised in international development studies, is “modernity” and becoming “modern”. This is a subject on which literature and literary theory can offer myriad insights. Zakes Mda’s wonderful 2005 novel Heart of Rednessdepicts the tale of a contemporary village in post-apa...
In our globalising world, the stakes could not be higher. Many of our students will end up making policy, allocating aid, driving the global economy. They will change the world. Literature and humanistic thinking enable them to change it for the better.
- Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
Feb 14, 2021 · Taken together, the evidence reported here suggests that perspective does not have a significant impact on the extent to which narratives modulate social and moral cognition, either directly or indirectly via transportation and identification.
Jul 7, 2022 · What are the effects of reading fiction? We propose that literary fiction alters views of the world through its presentation of difference —different minds, different contexts, and different situations—grounding a belief that the social world is complex.
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May 16, 2022 · Why read a book to children that mixes facts with fiction in such a way, and why present it in a half fictional narrative? Is this not simply invite confusion? To us it seems like any straight answer to these questions, either affirmative or negative, would oversimplify matters.
