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- Storytelling
- 人性
- 讲故事
- 进化心理学
- 美国文学
- 人文
- 闲书
- 英文版
- storytelling
- anthropology
- human behavior
- communication evolution
- cognition
- early humans
- oral tradition
- mental life
- embodied cognition
具体描述
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe: we spin fantasies, we devour novels, films, and plays, and even our sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why?
In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories are a way of rehearsing life’s complex social problems.Our penchant for story has evolved, like other behaviors, to enhance our survival, and, crucially, that of our social group. (In fact, studies show that people who read fiction are more empathetic.) Gottschall explores the deep pattern in children’s make-believe, and what that reveals about story’s prehistoric origins. He shows how a story was partly responsible for Hitler’s rise, how schizophrenia is an example of the story mind run amok, and how successful fiction is inherently moral. We are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.
作者简介
Jonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington & Jefferson College and is one of the leading figures in the movement toward a more scientific humanities. The author or editor of five scholarly books, Gottschall’s work has been prominently featured in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Steven Pinker has called him "a brilliant young scholar" whose writing is "unfailingly clear, witty, and exciting."
目录信息
The Riddle of Fiction21
Hell Is Story-Friendly45
Night Story68
The Mind Is a Storyteller87
The Moral of the Story117
Ink People Change the World139
Life Stories156
The Future of Story177
Notes201
Acknowledgments213
Bibliography215
Credits231
Index233
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读后感
雖說這是本科普書籍，作者引用許多生物學、心理學及神經科學的諸多觀點（這幾門學問也是我興趣所在），試圖去解釋人類其實是生活在故事中的生物，故事幾乎觸及生活中的所有層面；但作者是英文系教授，詮釋故事的內涵原就是其本行，而畢竟非科學家，其於書中所引述的科學論證並...
评分进化意义 本书的中心议题是：人类对沉迷于故事毫无招架之力，也就是说，我们都是梦幻岛的居民。例如：神话，传说，歌曲，小说，电影，幻想，做梦，游戏，职业摔跤，历史，新闻等等故事化的活动，都是我们梦幻岛民喜爱的活动。 故事有着进化上的意义，吾人可以借助心灵实验，模...
评分 评分作者Jonathan开篇谈到infinite monkey theorem，谈到Amy Plowman做实验给猴子计算机来做实验，然后发现猴子只会搞破坏，说“show that the infinite monkey theory is flawed”。我从未见过如此愚蠢的zoologist，原定理只是用于表达随机性在无限时间下的威力，这个Amy竟然从字...
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