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Literature, the Emotions, and Learning
- Philosophy and Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 44, Number 1, April 2020
- pp. 1-18
- 10.1353/phl.2020.0000
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Abstract:
This essay is an exploration into the ways in which literature can function as a resource for emotional learning. After rejecting the identification model of emotional education, an alternative model, employing the notion of criterial prefocusing, is introduced. I then go on to explain how this approach to emotional education can not only account for the reinforcement of existing emotional tendencies but can also change social sentiment.