Categoría: Relato
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Armas de seducción masiva
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JAVIER LESACA En el verano de 2014, un vídeo se hizo viral en la red. En él un encapuchado con nítido acento británico degollaba en nombre de Estado Islámico al periodista estadounidense James Wright Foley, secuestrado dos años antes. Era la tarjeta de presentación de un nuevo grupo terrorista que se daba a conocer al…
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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life’s…
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The Art of Storytelling: Easy Steps to Presenting an Unforgettable Story
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Many of us would love to hold the attention of a crowd, a classroom, or just a group of our friends by telling them a great story. We have felt the pressure of a public presentation or the disappointment of telling a story that others ignore. We are ready to be heard, ready to captivate.…
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The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
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John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood’s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all his secrets for writing a compelling script. Based on the…
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Storytelling: a Guide on How to Tell a Story with Storytelling Techniques and Storytelling Secrets
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Is it something you think you could be good at if you just received the right advice? Have you researched ways to improve your storytelling? Telling stories is as old as language itself. Before humans learned how to write down their thoughts the only way to maintain historically accurate accounts of what happened was to…
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The Politics of Storytelling: Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytelling, she argued, creates a vital bridge between these realms, a place where individual passions and shared perspectives can be contested and interwoven. In The Politics of Storytelling—revised in this 2nd edition with a new preface and…
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It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics
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Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month sit-ins spread to thirty cities in seven states. Student participants told stories of…
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Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements
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Despite the amount of storytelling in social movements, little attention has been paid to narrative as a form of movement discourse or as a mode of social interaction. Stories of Change is a systematic study of narrative as well as a demonstration of the power of narrative analysis to illuminate many features of contemporary social movements. Davis…
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Telling Stories to Change the World
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Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globe―including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago―describe grassroots projects in which communities use narrative as a way of…
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¡Será mejor que lo cuentes!
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¿Por qué hay personas que convencen más rápidamente que otras? ¿Cómo logran seducirnos los discursos políticos? ¿Por qué hay campañas publicitarias que recordamos de memoria y otras las olvidamos en el acto? ¿Cómo consiguen hacernos vibrar algunas presentaciones? La respuesta está en la forma en la que el mensaje está contado. Los relatos logran que…