Mark Bracher

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark Bracher plays a role.

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Bracher, Mark, Deborah Barnbaum, Michael Byron, Tammy Clewell, Nancy Docherty, Françoise Massardier-Kenney, David Pereplyotchik, Susan Roxburgh and Elizabeth Smith-Pryor 2019 Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing social justice by improving social cognition through literary studyScientific Study of Literature 9:2, pp. 107–162 | Article
Previous studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy.… read more