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Stories, Storytellers, and Storytelling

Stories, Storytellers, and Storytelling

Vine, Tom
Richards, Sarah

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Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031072367
ISBN13: 9783031072369
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 16 2023
Pages: 305
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book advances social scientific interest in a field long dominated by the humanities: stories, and storytelling. Stories are a whole lot more than entertainment; oral narratives, novels, films and immersive video games all form part of the sociocultural discourses which we are enmeshed in, and use to co-construct our beliefs about the world around us. Young children use them to learn about the world beyond their immediate sensory experience and, even in an era of interactive electronic media, the bedtime story remains a cherished part of most children's daily routine. Storytelling is thus the first abstract formal learning method we encounter as human beings. It is also probably transcultural; perhaps even an immanent part of the human condition. Narratives are, at heart, sequences of events and presuppose and reinforce particular cause-and-effect relationships. Inevitably, they also construct unconscious biases, prejudices, and discriminatory attitudes. Storying (a term we usein this book to encompass stories, storytellers and storytelling) is complex, and this book seeks to make sense of it.

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