ABSTRACT
Stories are everywhere: in movies, sitcoms, cartoons, commercials, poems,newspaper articles, novels, computer games and websites. We all make use of stories every day and our lives are shaped by stories – stories about what happened in our dreams or at the dentist, stories about how we fell in love or the origins of the universe, stories about war and about peace, stories to commemorate the dead and to confirm a sense of who we are. In this chapter, we propose to circle around the following propositions:
1. Stories are everywhere. 2. Not only do we tell stories, but stories tell us: if stories are everywhere, we
are also in stories. 3. The telling of a story is always bound up with power, with questions of
authority, property and domination. 4. Stories are multiple: there is always more than one story. 5. Stories always have something to tell us about stories themselves: they
always involve self-reflexive and metafictional dimensions.
