The Storytelling Animal
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547391
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Humanities,
Language,
Science,
Books About Books,
Biology,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Psychology,
Neuroscience
The author draws from such fields as psychology, biology, and neuroscience to explain why humans are hard-wired for telling and enjoying stories. Breezy and interesting.
I loved Gottschall from the first line of this book; I quickly saw he was a book fan geeking out about how awesome fiction is and I cheerfully followed along.I'm always going to fangirl over books on books -- I can't help it. I love readers and I love reading about reading. Gottschall takes joy in...
Human beings. We're all wired up for narrative from the way-back times. Gottschall does a great job showing us the various ways in which story pushes, moves, influences, controls us, pulses through the very core of our being. It's a good book. If you like that sort of thing.
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