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Narrative gravity : conversation, cognition, culture /
In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests that stories are a means of fusing causal and logical explanations of 'real' events with emotional recognition, so that the lessons taught to us as children, and then throughout our lives via stories, lay the cornerstones. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: New Delhi; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 425 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-417) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203301099 9780203301098 9786610073061 6610073066 9780415307352 041530735X 1134397925 9781134397921 0415754089 9780415754088 1280073063 9781280073069 |