Sunday, January 17, 2010
On the Origin of Stories
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volution may help explain copulation and even cooperation, but can it account for the creative side of human life? Can it explain art?” This is the main issue concerning Brian Boyd’s mammoth book On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction (2009). For those of us concerned with art and the creative process we have, as well, struggled with this issue. Undoubtedly, we have challenged our students and colleagues with circuitous discussions over the “what” of art. Boyd’s work, however, throws us a lifeline pulling us from the mire of unsolvable debate and repetitious frustration by shifting the essential question from “what” to “why”. This simple cognitive maneuver is, in my opinion, as significant to art theory and criticism as the first spark that brought fire to human kind.On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
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Labels: Boyd, Evolution, Theory
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