Liars, damn liars, & storytellers essays on traditional and contemporary storytelling
"This book presents a collection of essays on the art and tradition of storytelling. The essays range in topic from traditional Jack Tales to well-known storytellers, such as Ray Hicks and Kathryn Windham Tucker, to the nature of folklore and the future of storytelling as an art form"--
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Knoxville
The University of Tennessee Press
[2020]
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Jack of a thousand faces
- Hardy hard-ass : Jack in the raw
- "Whistlin' towards the devil's house" : poetic transformations and natural metaphysics in an Appalachian folktale performance
- Ray Hicks and the doctors
- The next last of a breed : dynastic succession and resistance in an Appalachian storytelling clan
- Raising up Abraham
- Innervision and innertext : oral traditional and oral interpretive modes of storytelling performance
- Little names and big names : Kathryn Tucker Windham and the American storytelling movement
- Miss Kathryn's epitaph : a bright thanatophany
- Oracy in the new millennium : storytelling revival in America and Bhutan
- Contemporary storytelling : revived traditional art and protean social agent
- Holocaust tales and the ethics of storytelling genres : reflections on the remarkable story of Robert Desnos
- Liars, damn liars, and storytellers : dimensions of truth in storytelling ethics and aesthetics
- Epilogue: The road not taken