Prep
- Parul Sehgal, ‘The Tyranny of the Tale’, The New Yorker (10 & 17 July 2023)
- Video: Review ‘Ghostface Killah Crowns Best Storytelling Rap Song | Complex Brackets’, Complex (20 October 2021). We made some general reference to this video on 2 December, but let’s see if we can’t zoom in on a couple of specific moments this time.
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: Is storytelling overrated?
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Francesca Polletta, ‘Storytelling in Politics’, Contexts (2006)