1. To determine what a story says about the culture from which it came.
2. To determine how a story from the past relates to a contemporary situation.
3. To determine how a story was received by different audiences at different times.
4. To determine an author's original intended meaning and purpose.
5. To determine how a story participates in a particular storytelling tradition or traditions.
6. To determine the relationship between a story's form and its content.
7. To determine a story's genre.
8. To determine the relationship between stories in different genres.
9. To determine the relationship between stories from different cultures.
10. To determine which stories are the best and why.
11. To determine how stories reflect ideologies, even when those stories are not overtly ideological.
12. To determine how stories reflect biases, stereotypes, and attitudes with respect to race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.
13. To determine how a story participates in, or subverts, a particular intellectual tradition or traditions, such as Marxism, feminism, or psychoanalysis.
14. To determine the relationship between stories and economic systems.
15. To determine the relationship between stories by different authors.
16. To determine a story's moral content.
17. To determine the role of symbols in stories.
18. To determine how stories utilize and reinterpret pre-existing symbols.
19. To determine the elements of a good story.
20. To determine how cultural practices like law, science, technology, and medicine shape the way stories are told and interpreted.
21. To determine how specific technological advances transform the act of storytelling.
(That's all I can think of right now.)
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22. For fun.
23. To understand them better.
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