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200 10$aUseful fictions$b[electronic resource] $eevolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature /$fMichael Austin
210   $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (193 p.)
225 1 $aFrontiers of narrative
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8032-3026-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aScheherazade's stories and Pangloss's nose -- Stories for thinking -- The influence of anxiety -- Information anxiety -- The problem of other people -- Sex, lies, and phenotypes -- Deceiving ourselves and others.
330   $a"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling. Might there be an evolutionary reason behind our species' need for stories?
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606   $aFiction$xPsychological aspects
606   $aFiction$xAppreciation
606   $aEvolution in literature
606   $aLiterature$xPhilosophy
608   $aElectronic books.
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615  0$aFiction$xPsychological aspects.
615  0$aFiction$xAppreciation.
615  0$aEvolution in literature.
615  0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy.
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