1 Introduction / Sean Prentiss and Nicole Walker -- 2 Bengal Tiger Moments: Perception of Time in the Brain and on the Page / Sean Prentiss -- 3 Sipping from the Transmitter: Theorizing the 'Potential Essay' / Lawrence Lenhart -- 4 The Brain is a Master Class / Dave Madden -- 5 Brain on Fire / Nicole Walker -- 6 The Brain Split in Half / Ira Surungruang -- 7 When the Body Reads: Writing Sensory Perception for Reader Embodiment / Nancer Ballard -- 8 Lens: A Lyric Meditation / Katherine Coles -- 9 The Heart and the Eye: How Description Can Access Emotion / JT Bushnell -- 10 The Memory Agent / David Lazar -- 11 On Metaphor/ V. Efua Prince -- 12 The Glittering World of Synapses / Lyncia Bega -- 13 A Sense of Oneness with Sun and Stone / Leila Phillips -- 14 A Gardener's Education (Animal Body) / Marco Wilkinson -- 15 The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives / Frank Bures -- 16 Conversations in Intensive Care / Amy Wright -- 17 Mindfulness and Memoir / Julie Wittes Shlack
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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