Wonderworks The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher | 4.67 MB
English | 463 Pages| ISBN: 1982135972

Title: Wonderworks
Author: Angus Fletcher
Year: 2021

Description:
A brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs-rivaling any scientific inventions-and engineering enchantments to the human heart and mind.
Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere-from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others-each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature's 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.

Wonderworks 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,...

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