The Agamemnon story is alluded to multiple times in “Odyssey,” each time with a different slant dependent on the teller’s needs.
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Stories Have Always Opened Up the Future
An anthropologist argues that human beings took over the world because they had the ability to compose fictions. Literature continues to point the way forward for us as a species.
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Lit Is Aristotelian Road to Happiness
Psychologists say that a strong sense of narrative identity can lead to the profound sense of happiness described by Aristotle. Literature helps us make sure we have available to us the best narratives.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aristotle, Brothers Karamazov, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Emma, eudaimonic well-being, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Great Expectations, happiness, Jane Austen, King Lear, William Shakespeare | Comments closed
The Centrality of Fiction to Our Lives
Jonathan Gottschall’s “How Stories Make Us Human” is an enlightening book with some limitations.
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