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dc.contributor.author | Nagel, Meira | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-08T20:28:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-08T20:28:54Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/4164 | - |
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dc.description.abstract | Telling stories has been an innate human drive since the beginning—since Adam relayed to Eve that G-d had told him not to eat from the tree of knowledge1 . Walter Fisher, a 20th century philosopher, proposed that all meaningful communication is a form of storytelling, of narrative— that “humans are essentially storytellers2 .” We see stories being told in all aspects of the human experience: from teachers in the classroom describing the Civil War to a millennial anxiously texting her friend the latest boy drama. Storytelling, in fact, is so much a part of who we are and what we do as humans that it is often hard to pinpoint what exactly it means to be telling a story. One area in which it is especially crucial to analyze the power of a complex narrative is that of a legal battle. In this arena, the details and nuance of a story can drastically alter the trajectory of a person’s life. Perhaps this is nowhere more important than in a custody case. We need only recall the oldest recorded case to realize the significance of narrative and the many shades of gray a custody case contains: | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Stern College for Women | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Narration (Rhetoric) | en_US |
dc.subject | Rhetoric. | en_US |
dc.subject | Communication in law. | en_US |
dc.subject | Forensic oratory. | en_US |
dc.title | Narrative and Rhetoric in Law | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | S. Daniel Abraham Honors Student Theses |
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