“A story … must reach me on some level to which I can respond, but it must also ‘stretch’ me, pull me beyond where I now am … One of the most telling aspects of ‘The Story’ may be this very unexpectedness intruding upon the familiar. We know about kings, for example, but we do not know about kings who come as servants.”
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Robert McAfee Brown (1975) studied this question.