Ebook

9781409425465

YT2025 M09

[Auto Generated] Preface “Once upon a time …”Across languages and continents the above phrase is ,with some cultural and rhetorical adjustments ,the young child ’s formal introduction to the seductive universe of storytelling .One needs to experience that moment early in life ,as it sets something in motion for the future .Later in life ,however ,the centrality of narrative becomes diffuse ,refracted across the different segments and divisions of existence that come into being to complicate the simpler unities of childhood .We begin to reserve the pleasures of storytelling for certain areas of life —leisure time with family and friends ,limited professional contexts such as presentations or interviews ,creative work —and assume that other areas are not implicated ...