Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature

by Michael Austin

Book Overview

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Digital
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803232977
• ISBN13: 9780803232976
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 193 Pages