The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for...
Storytelling
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The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for...
- Author:Gay, Marie-LouiseSummary:
Dans ce magnifique album, Marie-Louise Gay nous présente une histoire... dans une histoire! À travers ses textes amusants et ses magnifiques illustrations, elle invite les lecteurs à découvrir le monde merveilleux de la création!
- Author:Nash, ScottSummary:
When Duckie, a terry cloth duck, loses his brain and can no longer tell stories to the other toys, Tuff Fluff the private investigator must solve the case.
- Author:BRAND, MaxSummary:
Trailin’! tells the story of Anthony Bard, a young aristocract from the east with a hunger for adventure, who sees his father murdered in the yard of their home. This starts young Anthony on a trail of vengeance that leads...
- Author:O'Leary, SaraSummary:
Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She whispers to the dresses in her closet...
- Author:Fulford, RobertSummary:
Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary,...
- Author:Simpson, LeanneSummary:
- Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines...
- Author:Solnit, RebeccaSummary:
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost." Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories--...
- Author:Bissoondath, NeilSummary:
Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of confession. Each time we tell a story, we...
- Author:Denning, StephenSummary:
Business leaders today face many challenges. They must create cooperation, share knowledge, and transmit a vision of the future. By using an appropriate story to illustrate a problem, leaders can draw their staff toward a fuller...
- Author:Kinsella, W. P.Summary:
Russian Dolls weaves in and out of the real and imaginary worlds of Wylie, a struggling author and self-proclaimed "unreliable narrator", as he finds and then loses his muse, Christie, in their shared home - aptly named the "...
- Author:Wooding, ChrisSummary:
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the phairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself...
- Author:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSummary:
Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the...
- Author:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSummary:
"Otter's Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in...
- Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary:
Nine people get trapped in the basement of an Indian consulate after an earthquake hits their American city. Emotions run high as the building begins to flood and the chance of survival dwindles. In oder to set their minds at ease, one...
- Author:Macomber, DebbieSummary:
Argues that each individual's life is a never-ending story, and uses the elements of a story to show readers how to understand their lives better, showcasing the "big picture" God writes in each person's story.
- Author:Jones, LloydSummary:
Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel 'Great...
- Author:Jain, MahakSummary:
A little girl discovers how stories can help overcome fears.