UID:
almafu_9959660709502883
Format:
1 online resource (321 p.)
Edition:
[First edition].
ISBN:
0-19-023216-1
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0-19-023217-X
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0-19-023215-3
Content:
This title considers the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set of social contracts. It combines current cognitive research with attention to the historical context of works of imagination to argue against the claim that fictions corrupt clear thinking and provide, at best, inert pleasures. The chapters explore the different ways creative work in media from statues to stage plays helps to maintain cultural homeostasis. Like the social contracts of law, language, kinship, and money, the social contracts of fiction are constructed and continually revised within communities.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Cover""; ""The Contracts of Fiction""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Illustrations""; ""An Invitation to Think about Contracts and Balance""; ""The Evolutionary Perspective on Balance""; ""Where Does This Theory Fit within Other Literary Criticism?""; ""1 Embodiment and Its Entailments""; ""The Genres of Fictions as Niches""; ""Person to Person Broadens to Brains and Things""; ""Learning from Fictions""; ""Learning How to Use Fictions by Experiencing Them""; ""Meanings Are Overdetermined and Not Fixed""; ""Who Learns to Use Stories and Who Teaches?""
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""The Theatrical Grotesques""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-023214-5
Language:
English
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