The Science of Story (eBook, ePUB)

The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction
Redaktion: Prentiss, Sean; Walker, Nicole

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, or cry, make us angry or triumphant?

Contributors: Nancer Ballard, Mike Branch, Frank Bures, J.T. Bushnell, Katharine Coles, Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Lazar, Lawrence Lenhart, Alan Lightman, Dave Madden, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Richard Powers, Sean Prentiss, Julie Wittes Schlack, Valerie Sweeney Prince, Ira Sukrungruang, Nicole Walker, Wendy S. Walters, Marco Wilkinson, Amy Wright.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350083905
• Artikelnr.: 58435816

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents 01 Introduction
Sean Prentiss and Nicole Walker 02 Bengal Tiger Moments: Perception of Time in the Brain and on the Page
Sean Prentiss
Vermont College of Fine Arts
USA 03 Sipping from the Transmitter: Theorizing the 'Potential Essay'
Lawrence Lenhart - 04 The Brain is a Master Class
Dave Madden
University of San Francisco
USA 05 Brain on Fire
Nicole Walker
Northern Arizona University
USA 06 The Brain Split in Half
Ira Surungruang
University of South Florida
USA 07 When the Body Reads: Writing Sensory Perception for Reader Embodiment
Nancer Ballard
Brandeis University
USA 08 Lens: A Lyric Meditation
Katherine Coles
University of Utah
USA 09 The Heart and the Eye: How Description Can Access Emotion
JT Bushnell
Oregon State University
USA 10 The Memory Agent
David Lazar
Columbia College Chicago
USA 11 On Metaphor
V. Efua Prince
Wayne State University
USA 12 The Glittering World of Synapses
Lyncia Bega
Dine¿ writer and artist 13 A Sense of Oneness with Sun and Stone
Leila Phillips
College of the Holy Cross
USA 14 A Gardener's Education (Animal Body)
Marco Wilkinson
Oberlin College and Lorain County Community College
USA 15 The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives
Frank Bures
author of The Geography of Madness 16 Conversations in Intensive Care
Amy Wright
author 17 Mindfulness and Memoir
Julie Wittes Shlack
author