The renowned naturalist, Loren Eisely, observed that we humans have given up the “certainty of the animal that what it senses is exactly there in the shape th

This book presents a unique and intuitively compelling way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that t

Since before the dawn of history, people have been telling stories to each other and to themselves. Thus stories are at the root of human experience. This volum

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Narrative Theory offers an introduction to the field's critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative throughout history.