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    The document discusses the importance of studying literature. It notes that reading literature cultivates imagination and helps develop communication, analysis, and critical thinking skills. Studying literature also allows people to understand different perspectives, find meaning, travel to new places and times, and be inspired. Most importantly, reading literature can be fun and help develop empathy.

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    Why we study Literature

    and why its freaking important.

    Prof. Ian Ocampo Flora


    Joyce Carol Oates

     “Reading is the sole means by


    which we slip, involuntarily, often
    helplessly, into another’s skin.” 
    Reading: Feelings and Emotions

     Awareness of one’s emotional state, including the knowledge that it is possible to


    experience mixed feelings.
     Ability to discern others’ emotions based on the knowledge about situational and
    expressive cues.
     Ability to use the vocabulary of emotion and expression terms of one’s (sub)culture.
     Capacity of empathic and sympathetic involvement in others’ emotional experience
     Understanding that inner emotional states do not need to correspond to outer expression,
    neither in oneself nor in others (masked feelings)
    Reading: Feelings and Emotions

     Capacity for adaptive coping with aversive or distressing emotions by using self-regulatory
    strategies.
     Awareness that the structure of relationships is largely defined by how emotions are
    communicated within the relationship.
     Capacity for emotional self-efficacy
    And now the important part

     Imagination: Reading literature cultivates the imagination.

     Communication: Writing and talking about literature helps prepare students to write and
    talk about anything.

     Analysis: Literary works—whether fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction—challenge


    readers to make connections, to weigh evidence, to question, to notice details, to make
    sense out of a rich experience.
    And more important stuff
     Understanding: We think in terms of stories: this happens, and then that happens, and
    what’s the connection between these events, and what is going to happen next?
     Agility: Literary works often ask us to think in complex ways, to hold sometimes
    contradictory, or apparently conflicting ideas in our minds.
     Meaningfulness: Literary works often challenge us to think about our place in the world,
    about the significance of what we are trying to do.
     Travel: Literature allows us to visit places and times and encounter cultures that we would
    otherwise never experience.
     Inspiration: Writers use words in ways that move us.
    But the most important…

     Fun: When students read literature that is


    appropriate for them, it’s intensely fun.

     Empathy: Because literature allows us to inhabit


    different perspectives.

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