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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Living Story and the Storying of Life
Chapter 1. Homo Narrans and the Irrepressibility of Stories
Chapter 2. Metaphysical Questions of Fortune and Social Stratification
Chapter 3. Virtue, Truth, and the Motherline of Morality
Chapter 4. Loving Compassion, Maternal Devotion, and the Yearning for Home
Chapter 5. Gendering Spatial Alterity: Why the Story Went into the Forest
Chapter 6. Ponds, the Feminine Divine, and a Shift in Moral Register
Chapter 7. Talking Tools, Femina Narrans, and the Irrepressibility of Women
Notes
Works Cited
Index