- Editorial:
- SCRIBNER
- Año de edición:
- 2021
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9821-3597-3
- Páginas:
- 464
WONDERWORKS
THE 25 MOST POWERFUL INVENTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE
ANGUS FLETCHER
u003cbu003eA brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughsrivaling any scientific inventionsand engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eLiterature is a technology like any other. And the writers we reverefrom Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and otherseach made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literatures great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all.u003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003ciu003eWonderworksu003c/iu003e reviews the blueprints for twenty-five of the most powerful developments in the history of literature. These inventions can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennuiall while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change. They can be found all throughout literaturefrom ancient Chinese lyrics to Shakespeares plays, poetry to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and crime novels to slave narratives.u003cbru003e u003cbru003eAn easy-to-understand exploration of the new literary field of story science, u003ciu003eWonderworks u003c/iu003eteaches you everything you wish you learned in your English class. Based on author Angus Fletchers own research, it is an eye-opening and thought-provoking work that offers us a new understanding of the power of literature.
