{"product_id":"the-science-of-story-9781350084247","title":"The Science of Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSean Prentiss\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of \u003ci\u003eFinding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography\/History. He is also co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Far Edges of the Fourth Genre \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and co-author (with Joe Wilkins) of \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eNicole Walker\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the collections \u003ci\u003eThe After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet\u003c\/i\u003e from Rose Metal Press and \u003ci\u003eSustainability: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e from Mad Creek Books. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003eWhere the Tiny Things Are, Egg\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMicrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Noisy Egg. \u003c\/i\u003eShe edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections \u003ci\u003eScience of Story\u003c\/i\u003e with Sean Prentiss and with Margot Singer, \u003ci\u003eBending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She's nonfiction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers intriguing takes on the question of how our unknowable brains reckon with experience and lead us to the artistic practice of creative nonfiction. Cognitive science, neuroaesthetics, mirror neurons, memory and metaphor all come out to play with these inquiring minds. This is not an instruction manual, but rather a series of brilliant provocations to expand the field of our writing lives. * Alison Hawthorne Deming, Author of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Science of Story \u003c\/i\u003emakes a great case for the essay as premier scientific instrument. Each contribution in this anthology illuminates a new intersection between writing and science. How does time or space \u003ci\u003ework\u003c\/i\u003e in memory or on the page? How do description and emotion affect us? How do memory or metaphor work to produce the magic they do? How do the essays we love affect us emotionally? And more importantly, how can writers use or repurpose these tools to make more interesting and beautiful things? This book will be revelatory for writers of nonfiction and their many readers. * Ander Monson, Professor of English, University of Arizona, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents 01 Introduction, Sean Prentiss and Nicole Walker 02 Bengal Tiger Moments: Perception of Time in the Brain and on the Page, \u003ci\u003eSean Prentiss, Vermont College of Fine Arts, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 03 Sipping from the Transmitter: Theorizing the ‘Potential Essay’, Lawrence Lenhart –  04 The Brain is a Master Class, \u003ci\u003eDave Madden, University of San Francisco, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 05 Brain on Fire, Nicole Walker, \u003ci\u003eNorthern Arizona University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 06 The Brain Split in Half, \u003ci\u003eIra Surungruang, University of South Florida, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 07 When the Body Reads: Writing Sensory Perception for Reader Embodiment, \u003ci\u003eNancer Ballard, Brandeis University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 08 Lens: A Lyric Meditation, \u003ci\u003eKatherine Coles, University of Utah, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 09 The Heart and the Eye: How Description Can Access Emotion, \u003ci\u003eJT Bushnell, Oregon State University, USA 1\u003c\/i\u003e0 The Memory Agent, \u003ci\u003eDavid Lazar, Columbia College Chicago, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 11 On Metaphor, \u003ci\u003eV. Efua Prince, Wayne State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 12 The Glittering World of Synapses, \u003ci\u003eLyncia Bega, Dine´ writer and artist \u003c\/i\u003e 13 A Sense of Oneness with Sun and Stone, \u003ci\u003eLeila Phillips, College of the Holy Cross, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 14 A Gardener’s Education (Animal Body), Marco Wilkinson, \u003ci\u003eOberlin College and Lorain County Community College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 15 The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives, \u003ci\u003eFrank Bures, author of \u003c\/i\u003eThe Geography of Madness   16 Conversations in Intensive Care, Amy Wright, \u003ci\u003eauthor\u003c\/i\u003e 17 Mindfulness and Memoir, Julie Wittes Shlack, \u003ci\u003eauthor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738586394967,"sku":"9781350084247","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350084247.jpg?v=1720049562","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-science-of-story-9781350084247","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}