The Resource The trickster brain : neuroscience, evolution, and narrative, David Williams
The trickster brain : neuroscience, evolution, and narrative, David Williams
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- Summary
- Until recently, scientific and literary cultures have existed side-by-side but most often in parallel universes, without connection. This book addresses the premise that humans are a biological species stemming from the long process of evolution, and that we do exhibit a universal human nature, given to us through our genes. From this perspective, literature is shown to be a product of our biological selves. By exploring central ideas in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, linguistics, music, philosophy, ethics, religion, and history, the author shows that it is the circuitry of the brain's hard-wired dispositions that continually create similar tales around the world: "archetypal" stories reflecting ancient tensions that arose from our evolutionary past and the very construction of our brains. The book asserts that to truly understand literature, one must look at the biological creature creating it. By using the lens of science to examine literature, we can see how stories reveal universal aspects of the biological mind. The Trickster character is particularly instructive as an archetypal character who embodies a raft of human traits and concerns, for Trickster is often god, devil, musical, sexual, silver tongued, animal, and human at once, treading upon the moral dictates of culture. In this text the author brings together science and the humanities, demonstrating a critical way of approaching literature that incorporates scientific thought
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 295 pages
- Contents
-
- Searching for trickster
- The silver-tongued devil
- The tricksterish brain
- Evolution
- The brain of sex
- The brain of love and war
- The brain of song
- Ethics
- Storytelling and the theory of mind
- The brain of God
- The trickster of mythology
- A swath of trickster stories from oral literature
- Female tricksters
- Literary filters
- Music and the trickster
- A swath of other trickster stories from around the world
- The trickster personified
- Blues and courting tricksters
- Trickster in written literature
- Trickster was wandering
- Isbn
- 9780739143995
- Label
- The trickster brain : neuroscience, evolution, and narrative
- Title
- The trickster brain
- Title remainder
- neuroscience, evolution, and narrative
- Statement of responsibility
- David Williams
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Until recently, scientific and literary cultures have existed side-by-side but most often in parallel universes, without connection. This book addresses the premise that humans are a biological species stemming from the long process of evolution, and that we do exhibit a universal human nature, given to us through our genes. From this perspective, literature is shown to be a product of our biological selves. By exploring central ideas in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, linguistics, music, philosophy, ethics, religion, and history, the author shows that it is the circuitry of the brain's hard-wired dispositions that continually create similar tales around the world: "archetypal" stories reflecting ancient tensions that arose from our evolutionary past and the very construction of our brains. The book asserts that to truly understand literature, one must look at the biological creature creating it. By using the lens of science to examine literature, we can see how stories reveal universal aspects of the biological mind. The Trickster character is particularly instructive as an archetypal character who embodies a raft of human traits and concerns, for Trickster is often god, devil, musical, sexual, silver tongued, animal, and human at once, treading upon the moral dictates of culture. In this text the author brings together science and the humanities, demonstrating a critical way of approaching literature that incorporates scientific thought
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, David
- Dewey number
- 612.8/2
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GR524
- LC item number
- .W55 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Tricksters
- Brain
- Brain
- Human evolution
- Neurosciences
- Label
- The trickster brain : neuroscience, evolution, and narrative, David Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Searching for trickster -- The silver-tongued devil -- The tricksterish brain -- Evolution -- The brain of sex -- The brain of love and war -- The brain of song -- Ethics -- Storytelling and the theory of mind -- The brain of God -- The trickster of mythology -- A swath of trickster stories from oral literature -- Female tricksters -- Literary filters -- Music and the trickster -- A swath of other trickster stories from around the world -- The trickster personified -- Blues and courting tricksters -- Trickster in written literature -- Trickster was wandering
- Control code
- 778424436
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780739143995
- Isbn Type
- (electronic)
- Lccn
- 2012007786
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)778424436
- Label
- The trickster brain : neuroscience, evolution, and narrative, David Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Searching for trickster -- The silver-tongued devil -- The tricksterish brain -- Evolution -- The brain of sex -- The brain of love and war -- The brain of song -- Ethics -- Storytelling and the theory of mind -- The brain of God -- The trickster of mythology -- A swath of trickster stories from oral literature -- Female tricksters -- Literary filters -- Music and the trickster -- A swath of other trickster stories from around the world -- The trickster personified -- Blues and courting tricksters -- Trickster in written literature -- Trickster was wandering
- Control code
- 778424436
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780739143995
- Isbn Type
- (electronic)
- Lccn
- 2012007786
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)778424436
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