Literary Practice as a Way to Promote Resilience

The birth and building of resilience as a concept and scientific paradigm are strongly linked to Literature. The author analyzes the possible contributions that the development of literary competence can provide to fostering the resilience of individuals at any age or biographic situation and makes a concrete proposal of educational application of her method of developing such competence both in formal educational contexts (compulsory and post compulsory ones) as in the so called lifelong learning.