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Wonderworks: Literary invention and the science of stories

Angus Fletcher

  • Starred review – Kirkus 
  • Angus Fletcher’s research and insights into the neurological bases for literature’s effects have made him an in-demand story consultant for Sony and Disney
  • Can sit in history, science, technology and literature
  • Wonderworks? is for readers of Will Storr’s Sunday Times bestselling The Science of Storytelling – though Angus Fletcher is using his own research, rather than relying on others

  • Classification : Literary Studies
  • Pub Date : MAR 17, 2022
  • Imprint : Swift Press
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  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781800750234
  • Price : INR 1,099
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Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher is a professor of story science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative, the world’s leading academic think-tank for the study of stories. He has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature, received his PhD from Yale, taught Shakespeare at Stanford, and has published two books and dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles on the scientific workings of novels, poetry, film and theatre. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has done story-consulting for projects for Sony, Disney, the BBC, Amazon, PBS and Universal, and is the author/presenter of the Audible/Great Courses Guide to Screenwriting.

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