Storying humanity : narratives of culture and society / edited by Richard Wirth, Dario Serrati and Katarzyna Macedulska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macedulska, Katarzyna, editor.

Serrati, Dario, editor.

Wirth, Richard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual.

Humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2015]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. Since time immemorial, storytelling has held a critical place in the heart of human identity. Whether for entertainment, education, artistry, or even survival, storytelling has served as an integral tool for expression and existence in every society and civilization across the globe. Our world has never been more connected, with stories of our past available at the touch of a key, and the ever-advancing present unfolding through personal experiences that are instantaneously narrated online. Through stories, we may gain perspective into the histories, cultures, and experiences of remote places and peoples, achieve greater understanding of complex social issues and closed-off societies, or add to the collective global narrative through blogging and social media. This collection presents the reader with multicultural and interdisciplinary academic insight into the ability for storytelling to illuminate our world and narrativize humanity.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Richard Wirth , Dario Serrati and Katarzyna Macedulska

‘Johnny I Want My Liver Back’: Revisiting a Teenage Folktale in the Digital Age / Michael Wilson

Lions and Tigers: Tales, Fables, and Androgynous Manliness / Elsie Cloete

It’s All about the Story: ‘The Making of Away’ and the Telling of a Cinematic Story / Margaret McVeigh

Storytelling in Academia: An Ethiopian Narrative Journey into the Expository Text / Ilana Shiloh and Monica Broido

Storytelling of Violence in Japanese Pop Culture / Shunichi Ueno

Storytelling as a Method of Fostering Creativity in Architectural Design Education / Susan Habib

Female Role in Sicilian Cosa Nostra Community / Dario Serrati

Juggling Time Concepts: Complex Meta-Narrative in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams / Fátima Chinita

Two Summers: What We Talk about When We Talk about Film / Carlo Comanducci

Counselling and Type Hierarchy: A Possible Tool to Analyse Metaphors / Barbara Gabriella Renzi

Rhetorical Functions and Ethics of Narratives in Political Speeches / Hanne Smith Pedersen

Telling the Story of a Name: New World Stories of Liquid Cartographies / Adel Sliti

The Mystical Element in Yeats’s Characterization of Owen Aherne and Michael Robartes: The Cosmopolitan Longing for Unity in Diversity / Faisal Al-Doori

Bardic Systems: Post-Literary Experiences in Gaming / Richard Wirth

Creating the Community Narrative: How an Australian Citizen Journalism Program Uses New Media Technologies and Participatory Collaboration to Tell Stories from the Grass Roots / Elizabeth L. Heck

Teens as Consumers: A Product Placement Example from Turkey / Beris Artan Özoran

Tropical Narratives in a Digital Realm: Locative Literature and Writing Communities in North Queensland / Ariella Van Luyn

‘Once Upon a Lager’: Transforming a Batch Process into the ‘Hero’s Journey’ Story Structure / Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren and Jane D. Stamp

Virtual Tourism Discourse through Narrative and Imagery / Sona Gulyan

Unveiled: Nuns’ Stories Reveal the Power of the ‘Call’ on a Feminist Consciousness / Claudia Cassidy-Bennett

Other Lives and Times in the Palace of Memory: Storytelling Space and Immersive Performance / Deidre Denise Matthee and Inês de Carvalho

‘Our Story’: Alzheimer’s and a Patient/Caregiver Auto/Biography / Barbara L. Ciccarelli.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-440-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884403 DOI