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Author Williams, David, 1951-

Title The trickster brain : neuroscience, evolution, and narrative / David Williams.

Publication Info. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 295 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents CREDITS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. SEARCHING FOR TRICKSTER; Chapter 2. THE SILVER-TONGUED DEVIL; Chapter 3. THE TRICKSTERISH BRAIN; Chapter 4. EVOLUTION; Chapter 5. THE BRAIN OF SEX; Chapter 6. THE BRAIN OF LOVE AND WAR; Chapter 7. THE BRAIN OF SONG; Chapter 8. ETHICS; Chapter 9. STORYTELLING AND THETHEORY OF MIND; Chapter 10. THE BRAIN OF GOD; Chapter 11. THE TRICKSTER OF MYTHOLOGY; Chapter 12. A SWATH OF TRICKSTER STORIES FROM ORAL LITERATURE; Chapter 13. FEMALE TRICKSTERS; Chapter 14. LITERARY FILTERS; Chapter 15. MUSIC AND THE TRICKSTER.
Chapter 16. A SWATH OF OTHER TRICKSTER STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLDChapter 17. THE TRICKSTER PERSONIFIED; Chapter 18. BLUES AND COURTING TRICKSTERS; Chapter 19. TRICKSTER INWRITTEN LITERATURE; Chapter 20. TRICKSTER WAS WANDERING; NOTES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Summary The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Nature by David Williams looks at literature from an evolutionary, biological, and neurological perspective. He uses the Trickster character as he/she appears across cultures to demonstrate how stories reveal universal aspects of the biological mind. Williams brings together science and the humanities, demonstrating a critical way of approaching literature that incorporates scientific thought.
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Subject Tricksters.
Tricksters.
Brain -- Folklore.
Brain.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Subject Brain -- Evolution.
Brain -- Evolution.
Human evolution.
Human evolution.
Neurosciences.
Neurosciences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: The trickster brain Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2012. 9780739143971 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2012007786
ISBN 9780739143995 ebook
0739143999
9780739143971 cloth alkaline paper
9781280687181 (MyiLibrary)
1280687185 (MyiLibrary)
0739143972
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