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Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature, Michael Austin


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Автор: Michael Austin
Название:  Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature
ISBN: 9780803230262
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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ISBN-10: 0803230265
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 2011-01-01
Серия: Frontiers of narrative
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 2 illustrations, 1 table
Размер: 150 x 224 x 19
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Основная тема: Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Подзаголовок: Evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание:
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling. Might there be an evolutionary reason behind our species’ need for stories?
 
Drawing on evolutionary biology, anthropology, narrative theory, cognitive psychology, game theory, and evolutionary aesthetics, Austin develops the concept of a “useful fiction,” a simple narrative that serves an adaptive function unrelated to its factual one. In his work we see how these useful fictions play a key role in neutralizing the overwhelming anxiety that humans can experience as their minds gather and process information. Rudimentary narratives constructed for this purpose, Austin suggests, provided a cognitive scaffold that might have become the basis for our well-documented love of fictional stories. Written in clear, jargon-free prose and employing abundant literary examples—from the Bible to One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Don Quixote to No Exit—Austin’s work offers a new way of understanding the relationship between fiction and evolutionary processes—and, perhaps, the very origins of literature.

Дополнительное описание:
Introduction: The Big Question
Illustrations
1. Scheherazade's Stories and Pangloss's Nose
2. Stories for Thinking
3. The Influence of Anxiety
4. Information Anxiety
5. The Problem of Other



On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

Автор: Boyd Brian
Название: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
ISBN: 0674057112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674057111
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer`s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss`s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works.

Drama, Politics, and Evolution: Cliodynamics in Play

Автор: McConachie Bruce
Название: Drama, Politics, and Evolution: Cliodynamics in Play
ISBN: 3030813762 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030813765
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species` history.

The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz: Essays on the Evolution of a Writer, 1973-1987

Автор: Gary Hoppenstand, Garyn G. Roberts
Название: The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz: Essays on the Evolution of a Writer, 1973-1987
ISBN: 078643452X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786434527
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Born into poverty with an abusive home life, Dean Koontz found a respite in books. As he began a writing career in the late 1960s, Koontz began injecting the dark experiences of his own life into his literature, and autobiography became a central thematic element of his thrillers, science fiction and horror stories. Even Koontz's earliest pieces, like Star Quest and Demon Seed, are tapestries of raw, varied and energetic storylines equally as worthy of examination as his later popular novels.

This compilation of essays examines the fiction of Dean Koontz, from his earliest literary efforts in the 1960s and '70s to his emergence as a bestselling author of suspense. Written by some of the top experts in popular culture studies, these essays will appeal to the many fans of Dean Koontz's work, as well as to general readers of popular thrillers. It is the first study to approach the evolution of major themes and intricacies in Koontz's early career as a bestselling author.

Factual Fictions : The Origins of the English Novel

Автор: Lennard J. Davis
Название: Factual Fictions : The Origins of the English Novel
ISBN: 0812216105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812216103
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: "Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h

America`s Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture

Автор: Gianquitto Tina, Fisher Lydia
Название: America`s Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture
ISBN: 0820346756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820346755
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: While much has been written about the impact of Darwin`s theories on US culture, and scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed Darwin`s theories as a cultural force affecting US writers. This book fills this gap, featuring critical approaches that examine US textual responses to Darwin`s works.

Extreme states

Автор: D`hont, Coco
Название: Extreme states
ISBN: 0367664534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367664534
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Extreme States traces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.

Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination: Evolution, Engagement with the World, and Poetry

Автор: Ward D.
Название: Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination: Evolution, Engagement with the World, and Poetry
ISBN: 1349472743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349472741
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Examining a range of Coleridge`s writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.

Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture

Автор: Ong Walter J.
Название: Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
ISBN: 080141105X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801411052
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces of the Word are grouped around the dialectically related themes of change or alienation and growth or integration. Among the subjects Ong covers are the origins of speech in mother tongues; the rise and final erosion of nonvernacular learned languages; and the fictionalizing of audiences that is enforced by writing. Other essays treat the idiom of African talking drums, the ways new media interface with the old, and the various connections between specific literary forms and shifts in media that register in the work of Shakespeare and Milton and in movements such as the New Criticism. Ong also discusses the paradoxically nonliterary character of the Bible and the concerted blurring of fiction and actuality that marked much drama and narrative toward the close of the twentieth century.

Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture

Автор: Louise Westling
Название: Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture
ISBN: 1009257331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009257336
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago.

Technologies of the novel

Автор: Paige, Nicholas D. (university Of California, Berkeley)
Название: Technologies of the novel
ISBN: 1108812848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108812849
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Based on a systematic sampling of French and English novels over more than two centuries, this book sets aside the familiar histories of the genre`s so-called `rise`, proposing that the novel is a system whose constant yet patterned flux must be understood in the context of technological evolution more generally.

Of Literature and Knowledge

Автор: Swirski, Peter
Название: Of Literature and Knowledge
ISBN: 0415420601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415420600
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Of Literature and Knowledge

Автор: Swirski, Peter
Название: Of Literature and Knowledge
ISBN: 0415420598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415420594
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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