| Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature Contributor(s): Austin, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803232977 ISBN-13: 9780803232976 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 809.3 |
| Series: Frontiers of Narrative |
| Physical Information: 193 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: OC We tell ourselves stories in order to live, OCO Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling. Might there be an evolutionary reason behind our speciesOCO need for stories?" |