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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Frontiers of narrative.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 171 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803232977 9780803232976 9786613050816 6613050814 |