Literacy
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A childish nightmare, a strange figure in the night. A woman whose silence is both eerie and beautiful… Enter the dark tale of E.T.A Hoffman, whose story ‘The Sandman’ so disturbed Sigmund Freud that the psychologist created the concept of The Uncanny. The Uncanny, wrote Freud, ‘undoubtedly belongs to all that is terrible — to
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Quite the surreal experience, attending a law conference. I presented a paper which was a collaboration with Dr Hannah Baumeister. (We became friends after I worked as her research assistant on the Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics project.) Our paper (‘Fatal Words of Consent’: On Marriage and the Law in Wilkie
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I think I know what you think I’m going to say. I’m going to tell you about the studies that show that reading fiction increases compassion and empathy for others. By reading literature, you are given access to the lived experiences of diverse people: characters from different cultures, body types, ethnicities, even moments in history.
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My name is Dr Alex Carabine. Despite my rather impressive-sounding title, I’m actually a working-class woman from Liverpool. I attended a comprehensive secondary school where a sixth-form Goth girl was stabbed in the leg between lessons, and I never thought university would be for me. I had no confidence in my abilities, and, growing up
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