Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination

It is easy to get lost in the narrative of this book, only to remember how meta the experience is. This accessible book will interest readers in the sciences as well as the humanities. * CHOICE * I have always thought that studies of the brain conducted by neuroscientists had nothing to tell us about the literary imagination and the process of interpretation. After reading Christopher Comer and Ashley Taggart's new book, I find my mind completely changed. Drawing on multiple disciplines on both sides of the aisle, the authors amply demonstrate that by exploring the master category of narrative our understanding of both the brain as a physical mechanism and of literature as a resource for living can be greatly enhanced. A notable achievement! * Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Professor of Law and the Humanities, Florida International University, USA * This book is an essential read, since it offers eloquent debate around story-telling, what it has to tell us about the brain, and thence about ourselves. * Steven Matthews, Professor of Modernist Studies, and Director of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading, UK * Of the works I am aware of, [Brain, Mind and the Narrative Imagination] provides the clearest, most thorough, and fairest treatment of neurocognitive literary study today. * Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut, USA *