The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language by Mark Turner

The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language

Mark Turner

208 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's F...

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