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Story, Performance, and Event
Author | : Richard Bauman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1986-09-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521311113 |
An analysis of Texan oral narratives that focuses on the significance of their social context. Although the tales are all from Texas, they are considered representative of oral storytelling traditions in their relationships between story, performance and event.
Si sai encor moult bon estoire, chancon moult bone et anciene
Author | : Sophie Marnette |
Publisher | : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0907570305 |
Professor Joseph J. Duggan, emeritus professor at the University of California (Berkeley) is an eminent scholar of Medieval Studies who has written seminal works on Romance Literatures (and Old French epics in particular). His work ranges from editions of medieval classics such as the Chanson de Roland to articles about troubadours’ lyrics and a monograph on Chrétien de Troyes. Here, fifteen contributions from his former students and colleagues offer literary, narratological, philological, and contextual studies of the texts he has taught and researched over his long and prestigious career.
Oral Tradition in Cinematic Narrative
Author | : Virginia B. Garrett Cannon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Epic films |
ISBN | : |
Oral tradition provides the foundation for the classic, heroic ideal, and this ideological construct has evolved over the centuries: shifting and dislocating society’s accepted perceptions of right/wrong and good/evil. These changes are evident in heroic stories which began as oral tradition, changed into written verse, and transformed into cinematic presentations. This thesis applies a narratological analysis alongside an interdisciplinary lensing to the transformation of the heroic ideal while challenging narratological studies to accept cinematic presentations as valid narratives.
The Language of Life and Death
Author | : William Labov |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107245079 |
We share the experience of others through the stories they tell of the crucial events in their lives. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an analysis of how it is done. While remaining true to the facts, narrators use linguistic devices to present themselves in the best possible light and change the listener's perception of who is to blame for what has occurred. William Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: the danger of death, violence, premonitions and large-scale community conflicts. The book also examines traditional epic and historical texts, from Herodotus and the Old Testament to Macaulay, showing how these literary genres draw upon the techniques of personal narratives. Not only relevant to students of narratology, discourse and sociolinguistics, this book will be rewarding reading for anyone interested in the human condition.
Oral Traditions, Continuities and Transformations in Northeast India and Beyond
Author | : Surajit Sarkar |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-12-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000335585 |
Northeast India is home to many distinct communities and is an area of incredible ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity. This book explores the shared cultural heritage among the highland and river valley communities of Northeast India and mainland South East Asia, including South China, through oral traditions. It looks at these shared cultural traditions and suggests new ways of understanding and interpreting the heritage of Northeast India. Oral traditions often bring forward an unexpected twist in understanding historical and cultural links, and this volume explores this using local knowledge and innovative engagements with oral traditions in multiple ways, from folklore and language to performative traditions. The essays in this volume examine how communities build new meanings from old traditions, often as a recognition of the tension between conservation and creation, between individual interpretation and social consensus. They offer interesting parallels on how oral traditions behave in different socio-economic contexts, and also examine how oral traditions and memory interact with the digital world’s penetration in the remote areas. This volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of Northeast India, sociology, sociology of culture, cultural studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, folkloristics, and political sociology.
Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison
Author | : Marilyn Sanders Mobley |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1994-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807119648 |
As women of different eras, cultural backgrounds, racial identities, and places of origin, Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison would appear to have little in common. But in her study of these two seemingly dissimilar writers Marilyn Sanders Mobley finds elements that unite their fictional concerns. Mobley argues that a folk aesthetic gives structure and meaning to Jewett’s and Morrison’s work and that a mythic impulse informs their ability to depict people and values that the dominant American culture has traditionally neglected. Through close readings of Jewett’s Deephaven, “A White Heron,” and The Country of Pointed Firs and of Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Beloved, she demonstrates that the fiction of both writers attempts to preserve and affirm cultural difference, cultural knowledge, and cultural memory. Mobley’s carefully argued study simultaneously offers important new insights into the works of two significant women writers and points out ways in which narrative may be used as a catalyst for cultural and social change.
The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling
Author | : Vibeke Børdahl |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780700704361 |
This text examines the traditional oral narrative of the Yangzi delta.
The Poem in the Story
Author | : Harold Scheub |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2002-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299182134 |
Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur. This is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the area—where ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forces—that Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem in the Story. In a career devoted to exploring the art of the African storyteller, Scheub has conducted some of the most interesting and provocative investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling, the complex relationship between artist and audience, and, most dramatically, the role played by poetry in storytelling. This book is his most daring effort yet, an unconventional work that searches out what makes a story artistically engaging and emotionally evocative, the metaphorical center that Scheub calls "the poem in the story." Drawing on extensive fieldwork in southern Africa and decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Scheub develops an original approach—a blend of field notes, diary entries, photographs, and texts of stories and poems—that guides readers into a new way of viewing, even experiencing, meaning in a story. Though this work is largely focused on African storytelling, its universal applications emerge when Scheub brings the work of storytellers as different as Shakespeare and Faulkner into the discussion.