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Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China

Product Description: Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in diverse forms, including narrative poems, "tales of the marvelous," "records of the strange," historical miscellanies, and transformation texts...read more

By Manling Luo

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9780295994147 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 20, 2015, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life.

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9780295994154 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 1, 2017, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life.

Visual Storytellling: An Illustrated Reader

Product Description: Visual Storytelling features a comprehensive survey of contemporary graphic narratives that encourages reflection, discussion, and various response projects in the writing or literature classroom. With its thematic organization, Visual Storytelling uses graphic narrative to identify intersections not just between visual and verbal language, but also between the overarching themes of identity, history, politics, and the arts...read more

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

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9780199380046 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 14, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Visual Storytelling features a comprehensive survey of contemporary graphic narratives that encourages reflection, discussion, and various response projects in the writing or literature classroom.

Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio's Decameron

Product Description: Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture...read more

By Valerio Ferme

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9781137490551 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 4, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story.

Storytelling in Science and Literature

By Margery Arent Safir (editor)

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9781611486438 | Bucknell Univ Pr, December 22, 2014, cover price $70.00

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9781611486452 | Bucknell Univ Pr, December 24, 2014, cover price $34.99

The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-grillet to Tournier

By Hanna Meretoja

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9781137401052 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 6, 2014, cover price $95.00

Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches

Product Description: This collectionÂ uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism...read more

By L. E. Semler (editor)

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9781137349941 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 30, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This collectionÂ uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance.

Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot

Product Description: This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkersâKierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchotâuse the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. Danta shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah...read more

By Chris Danta

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9781441139726 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 29, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Shows how Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot develop heretical accounts of the sacrifice of Isaac in order to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer.

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9781623560454 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 28, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkersâKierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchotâuse the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer.

Scheherazade's Daughters: The Power of Storytelling in Ecofeminist Change

Product Description: Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazadeâs Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate ideas of justice and equality for all living things, a philosophy called ecofeminism...read more

By Barbara Bennett

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9781433118715 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 28, 2012, cover price $80.95 | About this edition: Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazadeâs Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate ideas of justice and equality for all living things, a philosophy called ecofeminism.

Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora: Piecing Things Together

By Francisco Cota Fagundes (editor)

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9781433114304 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 2011, cover price $88.95

Narratives of Catastrophe: Boris Diop, Ben Jelloun, Khatibi

Product Description: Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of down turnand break,and narration as recountingin the senses suggested by the French term rcit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa...read more

By Nasrin Qader

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9780823230488 | Fordham Univ Pr, March 16, 2009, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of down turnand break,and narration as recountingin the senses suggested by the French term rcit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa.

The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination

By Neil Gaiman (foreword by), Frank McConnell, Donald E. Palumbo (editor), C. W. Sullivan, III (editor) and Gary Westfahl (editor)

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9780786437221 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 6, 2009, cover price $35.00

Spalding Gray's America

By William W. Demastes

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9780879103606 | Limelight Editions, October 1, 2008, cover price $19.95

Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett

Product Description: Irishness has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented as a nation of storytellers, musicians, and virtuoso performers. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance...read more

By Alan W. Friedman

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9780815631231 | Syracuse Univ Pr, October 31, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Irishness has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented as a nation of storytellers, musicians, and virtuoso performers.

Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett

Product Description: "Irishness" has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented, and has historically represented itself, as a nation of storytellers, musicians, and virtuoso performers. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance...read more

By Alan W. Friedman

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9780815631484 | Syracuse Univ Pr, October 30, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: "Irishness" has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented, and has historically represented itself, as a nation of storytellers, musicians, and virtuoso performers.

Spider Speculations: A Physics And Biophysics of Storytelling

Product Description: âIâve spent about 15 years plus some working with peopleâs stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. Iâm watching peopleâs lives and communities literally change, sometimes drastically, for the work...read more

By Jo Carson

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9781559362832 | Theatre Communications Group, March 30, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: âIâve spent about 15 years plus some working with peopleâs stories in a series of communities in this country.

Elie Wiesel And the Art of Storytelling

'In this work, essays examine Wiesel's roots in Jewish storytelling traditions; influences from religious, folk and secular sources; education; Yiddish background; Holocaust experience; and writing style. Emphasized throughout is Wiesel's use of multiplesources in an effort to reach diverse audiences'--Provided by publisher.

By Rosemary Horowitz (editor)

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9780786428694 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 30, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 'In this work, essays examine Wiesel's roots in Jewish storytelling traditions; influences from religious, folk and secular sources; education; Yiddish background; Holocaust experience; and writing style.

Storytelling In The Works Of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, And Schnabel

Product Description: The modern novel appeared during the period of secularization and intellectual change that took place between 1660 and 1740. This book examines John Bunyan's Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress, Johann Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and J...read more

By Janet Bertsch

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9781571132994 | Camden House, December 30, 2004, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The modern novel appeared during the period of secularization and intellectual change that took place between 1660 and 1740.

Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel

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By Yael Halevi-Wise

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9780313320071 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2003, cover price $84.00

Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures

Product Description: Telling the Stories brings together thirteen important statements on major issues of American Indian identities and literatures. Some of the authors tell their stories and those of their people; others give scholarly attention to the most important contemporary Indian authors, such as Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welch...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson (editor) and Malcolm A. Nelson (editor)

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9780820439549 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Telling the Stories brings together thirteen important statements on major issues of American Indian identities and literatures.

An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales: Reading, Fiction, Context

Product Description: This introduction to the Canterbury Tales is accessible to first-time readers of Chaucer and is also a significant critical study in its own right. It gives full separate readings of each tale, together with clear expositions of the historical and literary backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Helen Phillips

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9780312227395 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 12, 2000, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This introduction to the Canterbury Tales is accessible to first-time readers of Chaucer and is also a significant critical study in its own right.

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9780312227401 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 12, 2000, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: This introduction to the Canterbury Tales is accessible to first-time readers of Chaucer and is also a significant critical study in its own right.

Shakespeare's Storytellers: Dramatic Narration

Product Description: The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft. Shakespeare makes narrative theatrical and it is as prominent in his craft and language as characterization and imagery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Barbara Hardy

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9780720609639 | Peter Owen Ltd, September 1, 1997, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft.

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9780720610536 | Peter Owen Ltd, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft.

Chaucer and the Energy of Creation: The Design and Organization of the Canterbury Tales

Product Description: Using extant manuscripts as his starting point, Edward Condren argues that the overall design of the "Canterbury Tales" has a structural parallel with Dante's "Commedia". He demonstrates how individual tales support this design and how the design itself confers rich meaning, in some instances investing with new complexity tales that otherwise have been little appreciated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Edward I. Condren

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9780813016795 | Univ Pr of Florida, June 1, 1999, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Using extant manuscripts as his starting point, Edward Condren argues that the overall design of the "Canterbury Tales" has a structural parallel with Dante's "Commedia".

Blood and Iron: Stories and Storytelling in Homer's Odyssey

Product Description: Blood and Iron is an exploration of the role of gossip, rumor and storytelling in the society depicted in the Odyssey and in the real world in which the poem was performed. It includes extensive analysis of Homeric narrative technique, with particular attention to the way the singer creates tension in a largely traditional tale...read more

By S. Douglas Olson

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9789004102514 | Brill Academic Pub, May 1, 1995, cover price $164.00 | About this edition: Blood and Iron is an exploration of the role of gossip, rumor and storytelling in the society depicted in the Odyssey and in the real world in which the poem was performed.

Tales of Storytelling: Embedded Narrative in Modern French Fiction

Product Description: Embedded narrative is a privileged formal aspect of literature because norms of representation - and often reception - are themselves depicted. This work focuses on the exchange depicted between embedding and embedded narratives and how this exchange participates with other aspects of the text and with the socio-historical forces which ultimately frame any act of literature...read more

By Richard Shryock

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9780820422398 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 1994, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Embedded narrative is a privileged formal aspect of literature because norms of representation - and often reception - are themselves depicted.

Charlotte Bronte and the Storyteller's Audience

Product Description: Challenges the view of English novelist Bronte's (1816-55) work as unconsciously confessional, by showing her concern with the reader's collaborative role in the storytelling experience. Examines her portrayal of reading and storytelling, and her narrative methods in four of her major novels...read more

By Carol Bock

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9780877453635 | Univ of Iowa Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Challenges the view of English novelist Bronte's (1816-55) work as unconsciously confessional, by showing her concern with the reader's collaborative role in the storytelling experience.

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