A number of my friends have sent me the following New York Times article about the “next big thing in English”: neuro-lit. Apparently fictionally identifying with story characters and plots is being studied from a brain point of view. Researchers are looking at how many levels of abstraction the mind can hold (Virginia Woolf is credited […]
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Ignoring Books–Another Way to Burn Them
Read, reflect, act. That is my vision for how we should respond to literature. Therefore I was pleased to see a version of this advice appearing in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I’m reading Bradbury’s dystopia because I will be leading a discussion of it tom0rrow as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big […]
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