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The art of storytelling : creative ideas for preparation and performance / Marsh Cassady.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection GR72.3 .C37 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassady, Marsh, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Storytelling.
- Folklore--Performance.
- Folklore.
- Oral interpretation.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- Creative ideas for preparation and performance
- Place of Publication:
- Colorado Springs, CO : Meriwether Publishing Company, 1994.
- Summary:
- Synopsis: Nothing will ever replace the active pleasure of telling and listening to stories. Only a live storyteller can impart to a tale that very human touch that brings a gleam of understanding to the listener's eye. The wonderful world of storytelling is revealed in this resource manual for beginners and seasoned performers. Many ideas for finding, writing, adapting, and presenting stories are included. Three parts including: Choosing Stories to Tell, Developing Original Ideas, and Presenting The Story. Story examples and exercises are given throughout. Each chapter is concluded with discussion questions and activities. A comprehensive textbook for oral interpretation.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Choosing Stories To Tell
- Chapter 1: What is storytelling
- Chapter 2: Choosing a story to tell
- Chapter 3: Types of stories and where to tell them
- Chapter 4: Situation, audience, and location
- Chapter 5: Analyzing the story
- Chapter 6: Adapting stories
- Part 2: Developing Original Ideas
- Chapter 7: Ideas from experience
- Chapter 8: Creating characters
- Chapter 9: Planning the structure
- Chapter 10: Methods of communicating ideas
- Part 3: Presenting the story
- Chapter 11: Creative methods of presentation
- Chapter 12: Setting the mood
- Chapter 13: Using your body and voice
- Appendix (Where to look for stories)
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- About the author.
- Notes:
- "© Copyright MCMXCIV Meriwether Publishing Ltd."--verso of title page.
- "Editor: Theodor O. Zapel. Typesetting: Sharon E. Garlock."--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 1566080029
- 9781566080026
- OCLC:
- 30624674
- Publisher Number:
- 9781566080026 51595
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