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# The Literary Mind

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Review: Brilliant book
Review: Turner's book meets both of the gold standards for science writing - and don't mistake this book for anything other than science writing. He takes as his topic the meaning of language, and how it is we are able to use language and thoughts in meaningful ways, and both vividly and clearly portrays a major shift in scholars' thinking on the subject. But he is also interesting, not only easy to read but fascinating to read, precisely because his ideas are so intuitively correct and his framework for understanding human minds is, gratifyingly, actually about humans. This sets it at marked contrast to most of the cognitive science and neuroscience writing of the past forty years, which paints a picture of people as robots - as machines for processing information, absorbing sensory information as input and producing behavior as output. Turner not only turns that idea on its head by presenting a radically incompatible idea of how the mind works, but shows how inadequate the idea of 'information processing' is to describe the behavior of a human mind. Centrally, the book is about story-telling. Turner describes three basic elements of the way we experience the world and interact with it by means of our minds: story, projection, and parable. Stories are how we describe (people are actors, places are stages or settings, and so on), how we remember, how we choose what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Projection is the ability to relate the structure of one story, encountered many times - perhaps that of 'pouring into a container' or of 'throwing a ball' and fill in the roles of actors, places, and objects. For this reason, when I throw a ball to you and you throw it back to me, we know the same thing is going on even though none of the individual things we see or hear is the same. Parable is the culmination of the two: parable is the telling of stories (to yourself, to someone else) to guide the way you think and act now or in the future. Parable lets us understand morality tales as about our lives, lets us imagine The ends of our current stories based on other stories we've heard or experienced, and so decide that maybe we should take the backroads home if the interstate is so crowded. Turner also confronts the alternative views. He ends his book by presenting an account (a story!) of how language might have evolved in humans, and points out the failures and contradictions of more traditional accounts by Chomsky, Pinker, Blume, and others. For anyone interested in the human mind or language, this book is one of the most interesting, original works of mental artistry to be published in the last twenty years.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (26) |
| Dimensions  | 23.83 x 16.05 x 1.85 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0195104110 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0195104110 |
| Item weight  | 476 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 196 pages |
| Publication date  | 10 April 1997 |
| Publisher  | Oxford University Press Inc |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by C***E on 5 January 2021*

Brilliant book

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by I***E on 18 February 2012*

Turner's book meets both of the gold standards for science writing - and don't mistake this book for anything other than science writing. He takes as his topic the meaning of language, and how it is we are able to use language and thoughts in meaningful ways, and both vividly and clearly portrays a major shift in scholars' thinking on the subject. But he is also interesting, not only easy to read but fascinating to read, precisely because his ideas are so intuitively correct and his framework for understanding human minds is, gratifyingly, actually about humans. This sets it at marked contrast to most of the cognitive science and neuroscience writing of the past forty years, which paints a picture of people as robots - as machines for processing information, absorbing sensory information as input and producing behavior as output. Turner not only turns that idea on its head by presenting a radically incompatible idea of how the mind works, but shows how inadequate the idea of 'information processing' is to describe the behavior of a human mind. Centrally, the book is about story-telling. Turner describes three basic elements of the way we experience the world and interact with it by means of our minds: story, projection, and parable. Stories are how we describe (people are actors, places are stages or settings, and so on), how we remember, how we choose what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Projection is the ability to relate the structure of one story, encountered many times - perhaps that of 'pouring into a container' or of 'throwing a ball' and fill in the roles of actors, places, and objects. For this reason, when I throw a ball to you and you throw it back to me, we know the same thing is going on even though none of the individual things we see or hear is the same. Parable is the culmination of the two: parable is the telling of stories (to yourself, to someone else) to guide the way you think and act now or in the future. Parable lets us understand morality tales as about our lives, lets us imagine The ends of our current stories based on other stories we've heard or experienced, and so decide that maybe we should take the backroads home if the interstate is so crowded. Turner also confronts the alternative views. He ends his book by presenting an account (a story!) of how language might have evolved in humans, and points out the failures and contradictions of more traditional accounts by Chomsky, Pinker, Blume, and others. For anyone interested in the human mind or language, this book is one of the most interesting, original works of mental artistry to be published in the last twenty years.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***R on 8 October 2025*

This book is super insightful, it’s added something valuable in my life that I actually needed

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