Narrative Gravity : Conversation, Cognition, Culture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415754089
ISBN-13
9780415754088
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 24th, 2015
Print length
440 Pages
Weight
521 grams
Product Classification:
PsycholinguisticsCognition & cognitive psychology
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This text explores the anti-foundationalist, anti-essentialist idea that our stories make us up, rather than we make up our stories. This is a foundational text for students of linguistics, philosophy and literary theory.
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 emotional recognition, so that the lessons taught to us as children, and then throughout our lives via stories, lay the cornerstones of our most crucial beliefs. Nair''s conclusion is that our stories really do make us up, just as much as we make up our stories.
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