On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction [Audiobook] download free by Brian Boyd
- Listen audiobook: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
- Author: Brian Boyd
- Release date: 2010/5/12
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780674057111
- Rating: 7.82 of 10
- Votes: 98
- Review by: Jason Wolff
- Review rating: 8.35 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/20
- Duration: 6H48M34S in 256 kbps (112 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MPEG-4 SLS, FLAC, WAV, Vorbis, MP3, WMA (compression TBZ2, AZW, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 560
- Includes a PDF summary of 54 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 41M3S (10.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects-anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival, and it derives from play, itself an adaptation widespread among more intelligent animals. More particularly, our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity.After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works. What triggers our emotional engagement with these works? What patterns facilitate our responses? The need to hold an audience's attention, Boyd underscores, is the fundamental problem facing all storytellers. Enduring artists arrive at solutions that appeal to cognitive universals: an insight out of step with contemporary criticism, which obscures both the individual and universal. Published for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, Boyd's study embraces a Darwinian view of human nature and art, and offers a credo for a new humanism.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Evolution, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Literary Studies: General, Literary Theory
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 29.13 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x38.1mm
- Weight: 635.03g
- Printed by: The Belknap Press
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States
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