American Scholar: Brian Boyd on literature, science, patterns
Written on March 31, 2008
Nabokov scholar Brian Boyd (University of Auckland) in “The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature” suggests that “Art is a form of cognitive play with pattern….” (The article mentions an upcoming book called On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction but it doesn’t appear to be in the “pre-order” stage yet.)
Filed in: cognitive science,culture,fiction.
[…] I just chanced across this book at Amazon: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd (Belknap Press, 2009). I’d seen it mentioned over a year ago in an article by Boyd. […]