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Researchers: Novelists Best Academics In Explaining World
"Fiction - including poetry - should be taken just as seriously as facts-based research, according to the team from Manchester University and the London School of Economics (LSE). Novels should be required reading because fiction 'does not compromise on complexity, politics or readability in the way that academic literature sometimes does,' said Dr Dennis Rodgers from Manchester University's Brooks World Poverty Institute." The Telegraph (UK) 11/06/08
"Fiction - including poetry - should be taken just as seriously as facts-based research, according to the team from Manchester University and the London School of Economics (LSE). Novels should be required reading because fiction 'does not compromise on complexity, politics or readability in the way that academic literature sometimes does,' said Dr Dennis Rodgers from Manchester University's Brooks World Poverty Institute." The Telegraph (UK) 11/06/08
Posted November 11, 2008 06:12 AM
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