A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching PoetryCultivating Empathy: Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry: Cultivating Empathy: Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
Williams, Todd O.
2015-11-02 00:00:00
[In his book The Political Brain, neurologist Drew Westen describes a series of experiments he and his colleagues performed supporting the hypothesis that emotion trumps reason in people’s political views (x–xv). He goes on to describe how, in recent years, conservatives have been much more effective at appealing to voters on an emotional level particularly by creating narratives that appeal to moral values rather than making arguments based on facts or policy. Thus, Westen stresses the importance of creating emotionally compelling narratives for progressive political values. More recently, cognitive linguist George Lakoff has also stressed the need for progressives to do what conservatives have done so effectively in recent years, create and repeat narratives that activate positive emotions toward their worldview and negative emotions toward the worldview of their opposition. At stake, he argues, is nothing less than our democracy (1).]
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A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching PoetryCultivating Empathy: Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
[In his book The Political Brain, neurologist Drew Westen describes a series of experiments he and his colleagues performed supporting the hypothesis that emotion trumps reason in people’s political views (x–xv). He goes on to describe how, in recent years, conservatives have been much more effective at appealing to voters on an emotional level particularly by creating narratives that appeal to moral values rather than making arguments based on facts or policy. Thus, Westen stresses the importance of creating emotionally compelling narratives for progressive political values. More recently, cognitive linguist George Lakoff has also stressed the need for progressives to do what conservatives have done so effectively in recent years, create and repeat narratives that activate positive emotions toward their worldview and negative emotions toward the worldview of their opposition. At stake, he argues, is nothing less than our democracy (1).]
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