ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnography, Telling Stories, Miscarriage
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Thomas king: the truth about stories is that s all we are. ): you can t understand the world without telling a story. There isn t any centre to the world but a story. Importance of writing to express something important about oneself. The need and urge to tell a story. Bread: intimacy of i narrative and then personal incidents in her life (first sexual experience, marriage, miscarriage, etc. ) Brian boyd, a literary critic: provides a lot of scientific and clinical evidence to suggest why we tell stories. : sharing information that we can glean from our own efforts have been a major incentive for social life. Stories do this: they help train us to explore possibility as well as actuality effortlessly and even playfully - and that capacity makes all the difference in our humanity. Idea that through stories we explore actuality and possibility (the fictional part of narratives)
