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Wonderworks

The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

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Auteur(s): Angus Fletcher
Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
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This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and engineering enhancements 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 significant developments in the history of literature. These inventions can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennui, while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change. They can be found throughout literature—from ancient Chinese lyrics to Shakespeare’s plays, poetry to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and crime novels to slave narratives.

A “refreshing and remarkable” (Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me: An Encounter) exploration of the new literary field of story science, Wonderworks teaches you everything you wish you learned in your English class, and “contains many instances of critical insight....What’s most interesting about this compendium is its understanding of imaginative representation as a technology” (The New York Times). Psychologie Psychologie et santé mentale Technologie Sincère Du contenu qui fait réfléchir Exercice physique Histoire ancienne Shakespeare Wonder Works
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This book was fascinating and enlightening from beginning to end. It has given me reason to go back and read or re read many classics! I haven't been this keen on reading since grad school!

Eye-Opening, Especially For Students of Literature

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A clever "how to manual"..content likely amassed thru software programing. I completely disagree with the book's forgone conclusion that worlds are made by engineers rather than poets; but to the team of experts and technicians who assembled the bits and pieces, or nuts and bolts, (take your pick) on this project, that's all just a bunch of semantics. Book completely lacks any critical analysis of its content; in which case, we its readers/listeners are required to supply that; not bad in its self, provided you, listener/reader, are familiar with the likes of Plato, Schiller, Wittgenstein, and Hadot, just to name a few good spirited souls who'll offer up a fair and balanced analysis of this book's content. But hey? who am I to criticize!? After all, I'm just some grunt worker who spends the better part of his day in a welding shop to pay his bills.

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