Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing? Drawing on the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience the book sheds new light on some of the most important elements of the writer's craft, from perspective and truth to emotion and metaphor. The Science of Story explores such questions as: · Why do humans tell stories? · How do we remember and misremember our lives - and what does this mean for storytelling? · What is the value of…mehr
Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing? Drawing on the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience the book sheds new light on some of the most important elements of the writer's craft, from perspective and truth to emotion and metaphor. The Science of Story explores such questions as: · Why do humans tell stories? · How do we remember and misremember our lives - and what does this mean for storytelling? · What is the value of writing about trauma? · How do stories make us laugh, or cry, make us angry or triumphant? Contributors: Nancer Ballard, Mike Branch, Frank Bures, J.T. Bushnell, Katharine Coles, Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Lazar, Lawrence Lenhart, Alan Lightman, Dave Madden, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Richard Powers, Sean Prentiss, Julie Wittes Schlack, Valerie Sweeney Prince, Ira Sukrungruang, Nicole Walker, Wendy S. Walters, Marco Wilkinson, Amy Wright.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014) and co-author (with Joe Wilkins) of Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2017). Nicole Walker is the author of the collections The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet from Rose Metal Press and Sustainability: A Love Story from Mad Creek Books. Her previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story with Sean Prentiss and with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She's nonfiction editor at Diagram and teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
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Table of Contents 01 Introduction Sean Prentiss and Nicole Walker 02 Bengal Tiger Moments: Perception of Time in the Brain and on the Page Sean Prentiss Vermont College of Fine Arts USA 03 Sipping from the Transmitter: Theorizing the 'Potential Essay' Lawrence Lenhart - 04 The Brain is a Master Class Dave Madden University of San Francisco USA 05 Brain on Fire Nicole Walker Northern Arizona University USA 06 The Brain Split in Half Ira Surungruang University of South Florida USA 07 When the Body Reads: Writing Sensory Perception for Reader Embodiment Nancer Ballard Brandeis University USA 08 Lens: A Lyric Meditation Katherine Coles University of Utah USA 09 The Heart and the Eye: How Description Can Access Emotion JT Bushnell Oregon State University USA 10 The Memory Agent David Lazar Columbia College Chicago USA 11 On Metaphor V. Efua Prince Wayne State University USA 12 The Glittering World of Synapses Lyncia Bega Dine¿ writer and artist 13 A Sense of Oneness with Sun and Stone Leila Phillips College of the Holy Cross USA 14 A Gardener's Education (Animal Body) Marco Wilkinson Oberlin College and Lorain County Community College USA 15 The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives Frank Bures author of The Geography of Madness 16 Conversations in Intensive Care Amy Wright author 17 Mindfulness and Memoir Julie Wittes Shlack author
Table of Contents 01 Introduction Sean Prentiss and Nicole Walker 02 Bengal Tiger Moments: Perception of Time in the Brain and on the Page Sean Prentiss Vermont College of Fine Arts USA 03 Sipping from the Transmitter: Theorizing the 'Potential Essay' Lawrence Lenhart - 04 The Brain is a Master Class Dave Madden University of San Francisco USA 05 Brain on Fire Nicole Walker Northern Arizona University USA 06 The Brain Split in Half Ira Surungruang University of South Florida USA 07 When the Body Reads: Writing Sensory Perception for Reader Embodiment Nancer Ballard Brandeis University USA 08 Lens: A Lyric Meditation Katherine Coles University of Utah USA 09 The Heart and the Eye: How Description Can Access Emotion JT Bushnell Oregon State University USA 10 The Memory Agent David Lazar Columbia College Chicago USA 11 On Metaphor V. Efua Prince Wayne State University USA 12 The Glittering World of Synapses Lyncia Bega Dine¿ writer and artist 13 A Sense of Oneness with Sun and Stone Leila Phillips College of the Holy Cross USA 14 A Gardener's Education (Animal Body) Marco Wilkinson Oberlin College and Lorain County Community College USA 15 The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives Frank Bures author of The Geography of Madness 16 Conversations in Intensive Care Amy Wright author 17 Mindfulness and Memoir Julie Wittes Shlack author
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