The Moral Laboratory: Experiments Examining the Effects of Reading Literature on Social Perception and Moral Self-Concept (Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature)

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Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This title examines what we actually know about the effects of literature on the reader. The title applies methods of the social sciences to literary theory, presenting a psychological explanation based on the conception of literature as a moral laboratory.

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