Science Fiction with Damien Walter | The Rhetoric of Story : 2nd Foundation @DamienWalter | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
The Rhetoric of Story began with a simple question - what is a story? For over a decade I had been researching story and storytelling. In 2016 I created a series of seven lectures as I travelled through significant sites to the history of story in Britain, France, Sicily and Bali. These talks became the Rhetoric of Story, my first course, which as I write in early 2022 has over 35,000 students worldwide.
As my first video production these recordings have some poor quality audio at times, for which I apologise.
This ad-supported version of the Rhetoric of Story is free to watch. Please share it with your fellow storytellers.
Follow the full course, ad free damiengwalter.com
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Self – the engine of story
This lecture in the Rhetoric of Story explores the second of seven foundational elements of storytelling – self. The key ideas introduced in this lecture are:
- every story has at its heart a hero, a protagonist, a central character – a self.
- we make sense of the world by telling a story about it and placing our self at its centre
- to know the world, we have to know our self
- the self is motivated by a great desire
- desires can be conscious and unconscious
- a great desire leads to great motivation
- we are fascinated by how people become someone new
The Rhetoric of Story began with a simple question - what is a story? For over a decade I had been researching story and storytelling. In 2016 I created a series of seven lectures as I travelled through significant sites to the history of story in Britain, France, Sicily and Bali. These talks became the Rhetoric of Story, my first course, which as I write in early 2022 has over 35,000 students worldwide.
As my first video production these recordings have some poor quality audio at times, for which I apologise.
This ad-supported version of the Rhetoric of Story is free to watch. Please share it with your fellow storytellers.
Follow the full course, ad free damiengwalter.com
#
Self – the engine of story
This lecture in the Rhetoric of Story explores the second of seven foundational elements of storytelling – self. The key ideas introduced in this lecture are:
- every story has at its heart a hero, a protagonist, a central character – a self.
- we make sense of the world by telling a story about it and placing our self at its centre
- to know the world, we have to know our self
- the self is motivated by a great desire
- desires can be conscious and unconscious
- a great desire leads to great motivation
- we are fascinated by how people become someone new
