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| ISBN: | 0203301099
9780203301098
9786610073061
6610073066
9780415307352
041530735X
041530735X
1134397925
9781134397921
0415754089
9780415754088
1280073063
9781280073069
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Originally published: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-417) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests that stories are a means of fusing causal and logical explanations of 'real' events with emotional recognition, so that the lessons taught to us as children, and then throughout our lives via stories, lay the cornerstones.
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| Other form: | Print version: Rukmini Bhaya Nair. Narrative gravity. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 041530735X
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