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The Storytelling Animal
A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.
The Story Paradox
Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may be the thing that destroys it. In The Story Paradox, Gottschall explores how a broad consortium of psychologists, communications specialists, neuroscientists, and literary quants are using the scientific method to study how stories affect our brains. The results challenge the idea that storytelling...
Summary of Jonathan Gottschall's The Professor in the Cage
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first cage fight in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship occurred on November 12, 1993, pitting karate against sumo. There were no rules. There were no rounds. There were no weight classes. There were no gloves. There was no mercy. There was also no ring. #2 Gordeau’s opponent, Tuli, entered the cage with a serene confidence that began to slip as the fight progressed. Gordeau stunned him with a hard punch as he charged by, and then stepped in and soccer-kicked him in the mouth. The fight lasted twenty seconds. #3 I was a devoted, if basically inept, karate student in my early twenties. I was also a lot like those UFC fans cheering for carnage: I just had the good taste not to show it. I watched the tapes because they were exciting. #4 The story of Hamilton’s duel with Burr is well known. It was his first duel, and he could not believe how close together they were standing. They could almost duel by spitting.
Summary of Jonathan Gottschall's The Storytelling Animal
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Pay attention when you read a book. The power of story is so embedded in our lives that we are completely desensitized to its weird and witchy power. To experience its fascination, you must concentrate and resist the suction of alternate worlds. But you can do this! It’s not too late to save yourself. Well, it’s never too late to try, anyway. It’s never too late to learn to read. -> The power of story is so embedded in our lives that we are completely desensitized to its weird and witchy power. #2 When you read a book, your mind is working hard to create images that surpass the author’s descriptions. #3 Reading and story are two of the most powerful tools you can use to immerse yourself in a new language. #4 We spend more time watching television than we do reading books, and we spend a lot of time reading online.
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) had the longest reign of any world champion in chess--27 years. From 1894 through 1921, he wielded exceptional dominance over several generations of contemporaries and is still regarded as one of the strongest players the world has seen. A multifaceted personality, he excelled in other fields as well, and his life has been the subject of a recent deep-digging biographic trilogy. This book presents for the first time a detailed examination of Lasker's chess career, with a complete collection of games, many presented with analysis by Lasker and other first rank masters.
Tri-Faith America
In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultz explains how the United States left behind the idea that it was "a Protestant nation" and embraced the notion that Protestants, Catholics, and Jews were "Americans all." Schultz describes how the tri-faith idea surfaced after World War I and how, by the end of World War II, the idea was becoming widely accepted. During the Cold War, the public religiosity spurred by the fight against godless communism led to widespread embrace of the tri-faith idea.
A History of Poetics
Since the 1990s, following the end of postmodernism, literary theory has lost much of its dynamics. This book aims at revitalising literary theory exploring two of its historical bases: German poetics and aesthetics. Beginning in the 1770s and ending in the 1950s, the book examines nearly 200 years of this history, thereby providing the reader with a first history of poetics as well as with bibliographies of the subject. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetics and poetics of popular philosophy, of the Hegel-school, empirical and psychological tendencies in the field since the 1860s, the first steps towards a plurality of methods (1890-1930), theoretical confrontations during the Nazi-...
The Literary Animal
The goal of this book is to overcome some of the widespread misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically.
