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Literature, empathy and the moral imagination

Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina in a recent film adaptation of Tolstoy's novel. Credit: Youtube.

Does literature make us more human? Great works of literature, from Ulysses to The Famished Road, are often love-letters to literature itself: self-conscious replies to story-telling and the humanity involved in embracing a plurality of voices.

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Source URL: http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/heather-mcrobie/literature-empathy-and-moral-imagination

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[1] http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/henrietta-l-moore/protest-politics-and-ethical-imagination
[2] http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/henrietta-l-moore/evil-what%E2%80%99s-in-word
[3] http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/heather-mcrobie/is-gendered-austerity-finally-on-political-agenda
[4] http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/heather-mcrobie/from-morsi-to-sisi-evolution-of-targeting-journalists-in-egypt
[5] http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/paul-kingsnorth/age-of-endings