| #5545529 in Books | 2015-07-25 | 2015-07-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.00 x5.43l,.0 | File type: PDF | 440 pages|
In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests that stories are a means of fusing causal and logical explanations of 'real' events with emotion...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Narrative Gravity: Conversation, Cognition, Culture | Rukmini Bhaya Nair. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.