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The Secret Life of Stories

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Secret Life of Stories

By Michael Berube

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About the book

How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Beru...Show more

Literature: history and criticism

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9781479832736

Publisher

New York University Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

The Secret Life of Stories

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Paperback

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