| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 540 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-507) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Animal, human, art, story -- Book 1: Evolution, art, and fiction. Part 1. Evolution and nature. Evolution and human nature? ; Evolution, adaptation, and adapted minds ; The evolution of intelligence ; The evolution of cooperation -- Part 2. Evolution and art. Art as adaptation? ; Art as cognitive play ; Art and attention ; From tradition to innovation -- Part 3. Evolution and fiction. Art, narrative, fiction ; Understanding and recalling events ; Narrative: representing events ; Fiction: inventing events ; Fiction as adaptation -- Book II: From Zeus to Seuss: origins of stories. Part 4. Phylogeny: the Odyssey. Earning attention (1): natural patterns: character and plot ; Earning attention (s): open-ended patterns: ironies of structure ; The evolution of intelligence (1): in the here and now ; The evolution of intelligence (2): beyond the here and now ; The evolution of cooperation (1): expanding the circle ; The evolution of cooperation (2): punishment -- Part 5. Ontogeny: Horton hears a who! Levels of explanation: universal, local, and individual ; Levels of explanation: individuality again ; Levels of explanation: particular ; Meanings -- Conclusion: Retrospect and prospects: evolution, literature, criticism -- Afterward: Evolution, art, story, purpose. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Fiction. |
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Fiction -- Authorship.
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Fiction -- Authorship. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boyd, Brian, 1952- On the origin of stories. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674033573 (DLC) 2009007642 (OCoLC)261174055 |
| ISBN |
9780674053595 (electronic book) |
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0674053591 (electronic book) |
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0674033574 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780674033573 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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