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More people are reading fiction for the first time in 26 years, and some of that increase may be due to the recession. The National Endowment for the Arts reported in a report released Monday that ...
Towles chalked it up to men being “out of the habit” of reading fiction, explaining, “We know statistically that men are less inclined to read fiction over time, particularly after the age ...
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Mar et al., in a study of 94 participants, identified that the primary mode of literature that increases empathy is fiction, as opposed to non-fiction. [5] Other studies verify these results and go on to specify that active fiction in particular engages with the reader and affects the reader’s empathy, at the very least in adults, rather than passive, entertainment fiction. [6]
Reading Science Fiction is a collection of 22 short essays edited by James Gunn, Marleen S. Barr & Matthew Candelaria. The collection explores a wide range of theoretical approaches to studying science fiction, such as gender studies , post colonialism and structuralism .
A value judgment definition of literature considers it as consisting solely of high quality writing that forms part of the belles-lettres ("fine writing") tradition. [14] An example of this is in the 1910–1911 Encyclopædia Britannica , which classified literature as "the best expression of the best thought reduced to writing".
Dec. 26—Nose for News by Sarah Stultz As the year comes to a close, I've started thinking about the goals I set for 2023 and how I did in trying to achieve them. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of ...
Universal Pictures (Comcast) (films) Men in Black: 1990 $2.02 billion: Box office – $1.940 billion [510] DVD & Blu-ray sales – $83 million [511] Comic book Lowell Cunningham: Marvel Comics (Disney) (comics) Sony (films) Resident Evil (Biohazard) 1996 $2 billion: Video games – $600 million [512] Box office – $1.271 billion [513] Home ...