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  2. Empathy in literature - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Category:Fictional empaths - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fictional empaths" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Animal Man;

  4. Mockingbird (Erskine novel) - Wikipedia

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    Common Sense Media found the book to be "sensitive, captivating, and, just put simply, a great read." [4] Simon Mason of The Guardian thought that the author's "evocation of 'Asperger thinking' is impressive and sensitively managed, but such narrowing of the focus reinforces the story's programmatic nature" and concluded, "In the end, like Caitlin's drawings, Mockingbird is a neat outline in ...

  5. Why I liked it: “James” won the National Book Award for fiction this year, and for good reason. Everett gives intelligence, humor and heart to a character readers thought they knew.

  6. Suzanne Keen - Wikipedia

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    Keen is best known for her work on narrative empathy. She has published numerous essays and chapters on aspects of narrative empathy, extending the theories and applications of her book, Empathy and the Novel (2007). [4] She has also published widely on contemporary British fiction, Victorian novels, postcolonial literature, and narrative ...

  7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Wikipedia

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    Most of the world observes a new technology-based religion called Mercerism, which uses "empathy boxes" to link users simultaneously to a virtual reality of collective suffering, centered on a martyr-like character, Wilbur Mercer, who eternally climbs up a hill while being pelted with stones. Acquiring high-status animal pets and linking in to ...

  8. Night (memoir) - Wikipedia

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    Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer argues similarly that Wiesel evokes, rather than describes: "Wiesel's account is ballasted with the freight of fiction: scenic organization, characterization through dialogue, periodic climaxes, elimination of superfluous or repetitive episodes, and especially an ability to arouse the empathy of his readers ...

  9. Heart (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Cover of Herz, an 1894 German translation. Heart (Italian: Cuore) is a children's novel by the Italian author Edmondo De Amicis who was a novelist, journalist, short story writer, and poet.

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