Literary Influences on Tradition.

Literary Fiction Influences Attitudes Toward Animal Welfare

Literary fiction has been credited with considerable power to improve attitudes toward outgroups. It was even argued that it has been an important factor behind the global decline of violence against various minorities in the last centuries. Could it also help to reduce the human-inflicted suffering of animals? To test this, we studied the attitude toward animal welfare of n = 921 (experimental...

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

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Correction: Literary Fiction Influences Attitudes Toward Animal Welfare

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The Validation of the Writer’s Prophetic Status in the Russian Literary Tradition: From Pushkin and Iazykov through Gogol to Dostoevsky

Although it is widely recognized that the image of the writer as a prophetic figure has played an unusually prominent and persistent role in the development of the Russian literary tradition, this intriguing phenomenon has not received the close critical attention that it deserves. West European literary tradition provides a well-established context for the image, stretching from Homer and Virg...

On the Pedagogy of literary translation