Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Stories About Origins and Design
1 Scripts for Life: From DNA to Poetic Formula
2 Recombinations and Change: Ring Structures in Nature and Speech
3 Crabs and the Monomyth: Parallel Evolutions and Mythical Patterns
4 Going Viral: Big Deeds and Bad Fame
5 Symbiosis and Paradigm: What Stories Do in the World
Conclusion: Inoculation and the Limits of Analogy
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index