Summary Of The Teller By Susan Lepselter
The author, Susan Lepselter reasons that human beings from all walks of life have very different ways of dealing with the struggles of everyday routine. She follows that the reactions to these troubles heavily depends on the individual’s mental state or in some cases mental illnesses. In dealing with the frustrations of life, humans have a range of emotions and reactions that we are free to utilize but certain reactions can be viewed as a negative or debilitating in which mainstream society might not find appropriate. She dictates an anecdote about her handyman Junior who kept muttering about how they and them stole his prosthetic leg causing him severe discomfort in his everyday activities. Eventually, due to his increased paranoia, he spent
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“While the uncanny dismantles narrative conventions of realism and replaces them with uncertainty, its emotional force demands the listener attend to the teller with the same openness demanded by the genres of any personal narrative.” (Lepselter, 2016, p.22) The author reasons that an empathetic audience is more likely to follow along with the story due to strong, explicit emotional reactions to the subject matter which causes a chain reaction that allows even the most incredulous skeptic to listen with an open heart. Although society has its abundance of harsh critics, who examine and demean these “uncanny” stories that may include no logical sense, a challenge to the established status quo, or maybe elements of the supernatural. Lepselter says that despite the naysayers there will always be an audience willing to listen to the madness. This ties into a main argument David Roth in E.T. Culture that touches upon the same theme and claims that, “Their memories, theories, and intuitions are treated as (not necessarily true) “information”-an important and all-encompassing category in ufological discourse-and people…are hungry for it”. (Battaglia, 2005, p.68) Stories like these even though doubtful in their truth can in a way provide a means of additional “information” or answers for those desperately seeking for
“While the uncanny dismantles narrative conventions of realism and replaces them with uncertainty, its emotional force demands the listener attend to the teller with the same openness demanded by the genres of any personal narrative.” (Lepselter, 2016, p.22) The author reasons that an empathetic audience is more likely to follow along with the story due to strong, explicit emotional reactions to the subject matter which causes a chain reaction that allows even the most incredulous skeptic to listen with an open heart. Although society has its abundance of harsh critics, who examine and demean these “uncanny” stories that may include no logical sense, a challenge to the established status quo, or maybe elements of the supernatural. Lepselter says that despite the naysayers there will always be an audience willing to listen to the madness. This ties into a main argument David Roth in E.T. Culture that touches upon the same theme and claims that, “Their memories, theories, and intuitions are treated as (not necessarily true) “information”-an important and all-encompassing category in ufological discourse-and people…are hungry for it”. (Battaglia, 2005, p.68) Stories like these even though doubtful in their truth can in a way provide a means of additional “information” or answers for those desperately seeking for