Consciousness Duplication And Our Capacity To Learn From Literary Fictions

Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 1 (1) (2004)
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Many of us share a strong intuition that fictional literature possesses cognitive value in the sense that it has the capacity to expand and/or clarify our knowledge or understanding of the world. If we agree that we learn something when we read and discuss certain texts, we may nevertheless find the form this learning takes to be anything but obvious.

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