Entranced by story : brain, tale and teller, from infancy to old age /
We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences. This book focuses on the experiences that good stories generate: feelings of purposeful involvement, elevation, temporary loss of...
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Children's literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Entraced by story
- 'Both Blysse and Blunder': How stories begin
- 'A Hole in the World': Self and story in the preschool years
- 'A Place of Greater Safety': Stories in middle childhood
- The age of romance: Self and story in adolescence
- 'I Would Build That Dome in Air': Story making in young adulthood
- Remembering, repeating and foreshadowing: Midlife and memory
- Light at the end of the tunnel: Storytelling in old age
- The brain, the tale and the teller.