Sean (Hrsg.) Prentiss

The Science of Story

The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction

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Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing? Drawing on the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience the book sheds new light on some of the most important elements of the writer's craft, from perspective and truth to emotion and metaphor. The Science of Story explores such questions as: · Why do humans tell stories?· How do we remember and misremember our lives - and what does this mean for storytelling?· What is the value of writing about trauma?· How do stories make us laugh,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Walker, Nicole (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-350-08390-5
EAN: 9781350083905
Produktnummer: 33309424
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 425 KB

Über den Autor

Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014) and co-author (with Joe Wilkins) of Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2017). Nicole Walker is the author of the collections The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet from Rose Metal Press and Sustainability: A Love Story from Mad Creek Books. Her previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story with Sean Prentiss and with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She's nonfiction editor at Diagram and teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.