How literature can help us develop empathy

Name: How literature can help us develop empathy
Uploaded: 2020-05-18T16:16:36Z
Duration: 14 min 25 s
Description: Reading fiction can educate us emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, says Beth Ann Fennelly, creative writing professor and poet laureate of Mississippi. She makes the case for why we humans — and the world — continue to need literature.

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Beth Ann Fennelly |

TEDxUniversityofMississippi

• March 2020

Reading fiction can educate us emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, says Beth Ann Fennelly, creative writing professor and poet laureate of Mississippi. She makes the case for why we humans — and the world — continue to need literature.

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literature
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