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Useful fictions : evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature /

"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, virtual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Austin, Michael, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010.
Colección:Frontiers of narrative.
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