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We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example, as exotic tales set in strange lands, with spectacular images, talking animals, and fantastic plots--wonderful entertainments, often insightful, but well removed from logic and science, and entirely for
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- Author
- Turner, Mark
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199839346
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Literary Criticism
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (110 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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