麻豆传媒高清

The Odyssey is a good story. We accept that. But can we explain what makes it so satisfying? Experience tells us that the best indicators of a good story are not to be found by studying the orderliness of its telling or the clarity of its language (although these are contributing factors) but by paying attention to the responses of its audience. It is their engagement, their immersion in the tale, and their reactions to the telling that allow us to identify particular strategies that make stories so effective. In this talk I shall focus not on 'story' as a sequence of events but on 'story' as an experience, following up on studies in the cognitive sciences on the mind-based mechanisms through which we engage with and respond to stories.

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