The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytelling, based…
Specifikacia The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytelling, based on the wildly popular creative writing classStories shape who we are. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions and mold our beliefs.
In The Science of Storytelling, award-winning writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can write better stories, revealing, among other things, how storytellers--and also our brains--create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change.Will Storr's superbly chosen examples range from Harry Potter to Jane Austen to Alice Walker, Greek drama to Russian novels to Native American So, how do master storytellers compel us?