The poem in the story : music, poetry, and narrative / Harold Scheub.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Scheub, Harold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Folk music--Africa.
• Folk poetry, African.
• Oral tradition--South Africa.
• Tales--South Africa--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 316 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Prelude
• The Poem and the Story: The Poetics of Storytelling
• The Poem
• The Story
• The Poem in the Story: Myth, Music, Metaphor
• Myth: The Raw Materials-Myth and Transformation
• Music: Ordering the Raw Materials-The Creation of Metaphor
• Metaphor: Preparation for Performance-Myth, Metaphor, Meaning
• A Storyteller Guards the Poem in Her Story
• Postlude
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780299182137
• 0299182134

OCLC:

631158899