If humans were fish, our water would be narratives. . . . We use narratives to understand the causal influences in our lives. . . . Breithaupt attempts to deconstruct these processes and reveal how they work, going between high abstraction and specific cases.Matthew Hutson, Wall Street Journal
Breithaupt explores why we render the world in storiesand how the rewards of narrative thinking keep us spinning out yarns. . . . Its invitation to reimagine ill-fitting stories makes [ The Narrative Brain] a timely corrective to our fierce zest for certainty.Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American
In this piquant inquiry, Breithaupt explores why humans tell stories. . . . His theories about the functions and rewards of storytelling stimulate.Publishers Weekly
The Narrative Brain is a uniquely interdisciplinary exploration of the emotional rewards of narrative thinking. This witty, imaginative, and genre-crossing book changes everything we thought we knew about how stories satisfy their readers.Lisa Zunshine, author of The Secret Life of Literature
In this masterful synthesis of science and the humanities, Fritz Breithaupt crafts a convincing and exhilarating story of how humans shape the narratives that, in turn, shape us.Robert Goldstone, executive editor, Current Directions in Psychological Science
This innovative book invites readers to engage with their own lives as story by laying out the narratological basis of our interactions, identities, memories, and intergenerational legacies.Anette Schwarz, Cornell University
A brilliant, groundbreaking, and delightful book.Angus Fletcher, author of Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories
Fritz Breithaupt applies the concept and analysis of narration to a practice of consciousness that we all perform daily, inviting his readers to enjoy a productive reflection on their own existence.Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, author of Production of Presence Fritz Breithaupt expands our understanding of the co-creating reader, who entertains multiple possible directions, possibilities, and outcomes of a narrative while reading.Suzanne Keen, author of Empathy and the Novel
Fritz Breithaupt seamlessly weaves humanistic studies and scientific methods into a grand picture of what narration, the capability of telling stories, accomplishes for human existence.Rüdiger Campe, Yale University
Everyone is talking about narratives. Finally there is a book to explain whats really behind them.Wolfram Eilenberger, author of The Visionaries and Time of the Magicians
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