BIBLIPEDIA

Story as a way of understanding the world

Here are some key points from the chapter on 'Narrative Knowing':

* Narrative is a window onto the story-teller’s landscape of consciousness
* We all have a kind of personal myth
* We are made up of a community of selves
* Narrative has sequentiality which implies a future
* Narratives help us to reconcile the ‘exceptional’ and the ‘expected’
* The re-telling of stories is a problem-solving technique
* Narratives have morals
* Narratives are always socially constructed
* Narratives are liminal
* Narratives are ambiguous
* Narrative is cathartic
* Our ongoing personal narratives are co-constructed
* Narratives often arise around sites of social conflict

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