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It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto  \nWith offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press  \nin the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States  \nby Oxford University Press Inc., New York  \n© Gregory Currie 2010  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2010  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,  \nor as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available  \nTypeset by Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain  \non acid-free paper by  \nMPG Books Group, Bodmin and King’s Lynn ISBN 978–0–19–928260–9  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nPreface  \nClaims that this or that capacity is unique to humans have been controversial. Toolmaking of an elementary sort turns out to be quite common among our relatives. Perhaps even language skills are reproducible, albeit at very low levels, in some other creatures. There may be no basic cognitive capacity which separates us absolutely from all the other animals. It is what we do with the whole package that is so distinctive. In our ability to change the world we live in, no other creature comes close. The results, for good and ill, are all about us. They are all, in one way or another, testimony to our mental and behavioural flexibility—our imagination, in the broadest sense of that notion. One such result, undramatic compared with our technology but absolutely pervasive, is our storytelling, something I am pretty confident no other species goes in for. With stories we are released from the here and now, even if the story is a dull recounting of yesterday’sjourney. Stories turn the experiences of one into the knowledge of all; they make vivid what may have happened, what might have but did not; what we hope for or fear. Not that the news is wholly good; a lying story may become the false opinion of all; I address this issue in appendices to Chapters 2 , 5 , and 11.  \nTellers of stories have found ways to open other doors to the merely possible, by crafting their stories in ways which encourage us to respond to them from unexplored, sometimes exciting, sometimes disturbing, perspectives. Stories give us alternatives to reality, and alternative ways of responding to these alternatives. This depends on another capacity which, if not absolutely unique to humans, is vastly more powerful with us: I will call it shared emotional attention. We share emotions, not simply in the sense of sometimes happening to be in the same emotional state, but in the sense of experiencing, and valuing, our emotional states as shared. Narrative before the days of writing and the privatization of experience was a communa","cbCaisORpM4FBm8q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisORpM4FBm8q","pdf",1545875,264,"English","# Preface\n## Human distinctiveness and storytelling\n## Shared emotional attention\n## Duality of story told and mode of telling\n## Narrative, empathy, taste, and audience response","[{\"question\":\"What makes storytelling distinctive in the book’s opening argument?\",\"answer\":\"The preface argues that no other creature comes close in our ability to change the world through capacities like imagination, with storytelling as a pervasive outcome that releases us from the here and now.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book connect storytelling to shared emotions?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes “shared emotional attention,” describing how audiences and communities experience, value, and share emotional states, linking narrative power to communal roots and to technique in written and theatrical forms.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the central distinction the author uses for “story” and “narrative”?\",\"answer\":\"The book distinguishes the story told (characters and events) from the vehicle of telling (the narrative mode), and uses this framework to explain how narratives convey stories and shape audience responses.\"}]","Narratives and Narrators - A Philosophy of Stories | PDF"]