Description: Wonderworks : Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, Paperback by Fletcher, Angus, ISBN 1982135980, ISBN-13 9781982135980, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.
Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere—from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others—each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature’s great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all.
Wonderworks reviews the blueprints for twenty-five of the most significant developments in the history of literature. These inventions can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennui, while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change. They can be found throughout literature—from ancient Chinese lyrics to Shakespeare’s plays, poetry to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and crime novels to slave narratives.
A “refreshing and remarkable” (Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me: An Encounter) exploration of the new literary field of story science, Wonderworks teaches you everything you wish you learned in your English class, and “contains many instances of critical insight....What’s most interesting about this compendium is its understanding of imaginative representation as a technology” (The New York Times).
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Book Title: Wonderworks : Literary Invention and the Science of Stories
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Creative Ability, General, Books & Reading, Subjects & Themes / General
Genre: Literary Criticism, Psychology
Item Weight: 12.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Angus Fletcher
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
