Neuroscience & Innovations of Literature. “Wonderworks,” with Angus Fletcher, PhD

Today we are excited to have Angus Fletcher with us on the show. He is a professor of story science and literature at Ohio State University’s Project Narrative. He completed dual degrees in neuroscience and literature before receiving his PhD in literature from Yale. In addition to his teaching and research, Angus also serves a story consultant for Sony, Disney, BBC, Amazon, PBS and NBC/Universal. Unlike many literary academics, critics and perhaps your high school English teacher, Angus takes a very different approach to literary scholarship. He studies literature’s practical usefulness, and the science behind it. His new book, “Wonderworks. The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature,” explores literature as a series of unique and innovative discoveries. These literary inventions had, and continue to have, unique problem-solving functions. Problem-solving functions that can now be studied with the modern tools and methods of neuroscience.

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Neuroscience & Innovations of Literature. “Wonderworks,” with Angus Fletcher, PhD is an episode from PeerSpectrum by PeerSpectrum | Journeys in Medicine.

This episode is 01:16:47 long.

This episode was published on Jun 24, 2021.

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