Narrative Humanism
Download or Read eBook Narrative Humanism PDF written by Wyatt Moss-Wellington and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Wyatt Moss-Wellington |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2019-09-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781474454339 |
| ISBN-13 | : 147445433X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Narrative Humanism by : Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Book excerpt: This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questioning the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent human social complexity in fiction. With case studies of films like Parenthood (1989), American Beauty (1999), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Kids Are All Right (2010), this original study synthesises leading discourses on media and cognition, evolutionary anthropology, literature and film analysis into a new theory of the storytelling instinct.
