Shakespeare'S Eureka

Literature, Neuroscience and the Problem of Being Human

Shakespeare'S Eureka
Angus Fletcher
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 480pg
2 Sep 2021 UK
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9781800750210
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' Fascinating. It blew my mind!' Malcolm GladwellA brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs - rivalling any scientific inventions - and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind. Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer through to Shakespeare and Austen - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature' s great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all. Shakespeare' s Eureka reviews the blueprints for twenty-five of the most powerful developments in the history of literature. These inventions can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism and ennui - all while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope and joy. They can be found all throughout literature - from ancient Chinese lyrics to Shakespeare' s plays, poetry to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and crime novels to slave narratives. Based on author Angus Fletcher' s own research, Shakespeare' s Eureka is an eye-opening and thought-provoking work.
' Fletcher endorses storytelling as a foundational technology but he goes beyond that to illustrate its therapeutic value and centrality to cultural invention' -- Antonio Damasio * University of Southern California * ' Shakespeare' s Eureka is an extraordinary book, which makes a passionate, compelling, and engaging case for the value of literature. ' -- Raphael Lyne
Originally from the UK, Angus Fletcher is a professor of story science at Ohio State' s Project Narrative, the world' s leading academic think-tank for the study of stories. He has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature, received his PhD from Yale, taught Shakespeare at Stanford, and has published two books and dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles on the scientific workings of novels, poetry, film and theatre. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has done story-consulting for projects for Sony, Disney, the BBC, Amazon, PBS and Universal, and is the author/presenter of the Audible/Great Courses Guide to Screenwriting.
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ISBN-13: 9781800750210
Published: 2 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Swift Press
Publisher: Swift Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 480

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