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9 produkter
Storytelling Animal
How Stories Make Us Human
Häftad, 2013
2,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
287 kr
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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 …
Evolution, Literature, and Film
A Reader
Av Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3266 kr
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Featuring thirty-nine essential essays by pioneering scholars, scientists, and critics, Evolution, Literature, and Film opens with an introduction to the principles of evolution, with essays from Charles Darwin on the logic of natural selection, Richard Dawkins on the genetic revolution of modern …
Evolution, Literature, and Film
A Reader
Av Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
447 kr
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Featuring thirty-nine essential essays by pioneering scholars, scientists, and critics, Evolution, Literature, and Film opens with an introduction to the principles of evolution, with essays from Charles Darwin on the logic of natural selection, Richard Dawkins on the genetic revolution of modern …
The Rape of Troy
Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer
Häftad, 2008
720 kr
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Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from …
The Rape of Troy
Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer
Inbunden, 2008
1641 kr
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Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from …
Literary Animal
Evolution and the Nature of Narrative
Av Jonathan Gottschall, David Sloan Wilson
Häftad, 2005
358 kr
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In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new school of literary studies that promises-or threatens-to profoundly shift the current paradigm. This revolutionary approach, known as Darwinian …
Professor in the Cage
Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
E-bok, 2015
164 kr
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An English professor begins training in the sport of mixed martial arts and explores the science and history behind the violence of men When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out of …
The Story Paradox
How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
Inbunden, 2021
285 kr
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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 …
