Tag Archives: David Lodge

Walking a Pilgrimage, Rediscovering Trees

By Robin Bates | Published: June 28, 2012

Walking El Camino de Santiago, a friend discovered the healing power described by David Lodge in “Therapy.”

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Neuro-Lit Riding to the Rescue?

By Robin Bates | Published: April 14, 2010

I wrote last Thursday about neuro-lit, which an article in the New York Times has trumpeted as English’s “best new thing.”  Certain practitioners are analyzing the way readers become absorbed in stories—fictional identification—by scanning their brains as they read.  Practitioners of this new approach are contending that fictional identification has played a key role in the [...]

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