Hugh Crago

Entranced by Story

Brain, Tale and Teller, from Infancy to Old Age

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Produktbeschreibung

We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences. This book explores a wide range of literature together with recent research on brain function to provide an invaluable and thought-provoking link between literary and psychological studies. With a unique blend of research, theory and biographical anecdote, the author contends that it is the unique structure of the human brain, with its layering of sophisticated cognitive capacities upon archaic, emotion-driven functions, that best explains the mystery of story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415741705
• ISBN-10: 041574170X
• Artikelnr.: 40140446

Autorenporträt

Hugh Crago has taught literature, human development and counselling in Australia, and recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Western Sydney. He is co-author of Prelude to Literacy: A Preschool Child's Encounter with Picture and Story, author of A Circle Unbroken: The Hidden Emotional Patterns that Shape Our Lives, and has published widely on children's literature, social change, welfare policy, family therapy and counsellor training. He currently maintains a private practice in Blackheath, near Sydney, and contributes a regular column to Psychotherapy in Australia magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Entranced by Story 1. 'Bothe Blysse and Blunder': How Stories
Begin 2. 'A Hole in the World': Self and Story in the Preschool Years 3. 'A
Place of Greater Safety': Stories in Middle Childhood 4. The Age of
Romance: Self and Story in Adolescence 5. 'I Would Build That Dome in Air':
Story Making in Young Adulthood 6. Remembering, Repeating and
Foreshadowing: Midlife and Memory 7. Light at the End of the Tunnel:
Storytelling in Old Age Conclusion: The Brain, the Tale and the Teller