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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.
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Sep 21, 2020 · Indeed, an ever-growing body of research shows fiction has the proven capacity to make readers more open-minded, empathetic, and compassionate —capacities critical to ensuring we come out the other side of a global pandemic and a culture of militarized white supremacy with greater societal equity. Why?
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.
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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.
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Nov 3, 2021 · A qualitative survey sent to 13,784 social science researchers at 25 different universities asked participants to describe the influence, if any, reading works of literary fiction plays in their...
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In this article Annie Schultz argues that engaging with narratives of resistance and empow-erment in literary fiction makes for an important addition to the practice of political education. She is interested, in particular, in what can be gained from.
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Mar 7, 2019 · Teachers of literature often have students read works of fiction to learn important truths about the world. But, it is not clear how looking at a work of fiction can tell us about the actual world. This article examines whether and how this can be done.
