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The Storytelling Animal
How Stories Make Us Human
Taschenbuch von Jonathan Gottschall
Sprache: Englisch

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In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, The Storytelling Animal explores what stories reveal about human nature, how we process information, and think about the world.
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Gottschall argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems ? just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better.
We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.
A [...] Editor's Choice
A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
"A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us."?The New York Times
In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, The Storytelling Animal explores what stories reveal about human nature, how we process information, and think about the world.
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Gottschall argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems ? just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better.
We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.
A [...] Editor's Choice
A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
"A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us."?The New York Times
Über den Autor

JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL teaches English at Washington & Jefferson College and is one of the leading figures in the movement toward a more scientific humanities. The author or editor of five scholarly books as well as The Storytelling Animal and The Professor in the Cage, Gottschall's work has been prominently featured in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Steven Pinker has called him "a brilliant young scholar" whose writing is "unfailingly clear, witty, and exciting."

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780544002340
ISBN-10: 0544002342
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gottschall, Jonathan
Hersteller: HarperCollins
Maße: 211 x 139 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Gottschall
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.2013
Gewicht: 0,223 kg
preigu-id: 121023488
Über den Autor

JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL teaches English at Washington & Jefferson College and is one of the leading figures in the movement toward a more scientific humanities. The author or editor of five scholarly books as well as The Storytelling Animal and The Professor in the Cage, Gottschall's work has been prominently featured in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Steven Pinker has called him "a brilliant young scholar" whose writing is "unfailingly clear, witty, and exciting."

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780544002340
ISBN-10: 0544002342
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gottschall, Jonathan
Hersteller: HarperCollins
Maße: 211 x 139 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Gottschall
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.2013
Gewicht: 0,223 kg
preigu-id: 121023488
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