Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative

by Lisa Zunshine (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $33.68

  Discussing motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids, and nonsense poetry and surrealist art, she reveals the range and power of key concepts from science in literary interpretation and provides insight into how cognitive-evolutionary research on essentialism can be used to study fiction as well as everyday strange concepts.