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| Title: | The Evolution of Stories |
| Authors: | Boyd, Brian
Adelaide Festival Corporation |
| Keywords: | Art
Literature
Human condition
Evolutionary role
Entertainment |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | Radio Adelaide |
| Series/Report no.: | Adelaide Festival of Ideas : Planning for Uncertainty ; 7th-9th October 2011. |
| Abstract: | Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, 2:30pm, Saturday 8th October, 2011. Chaired by Robert Phiddian, poetry read by Erica Jolly.
Art and literature are, by definition, artificial things. People lavish a lot more effort and attention on them than really makes sense in practical terms. Are they just extras, mere entertainment designed to fill a bit of time? Or are they adaptations that, through play, help the human mind develop power and complexity, even wisdom? How do stories play a role in human evolution? |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25648 |
| Appears in Collections: | 2011 - Planning for Uncertainty
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