Storytelling : exploring the art and science of narrative / edited by Sara Shafer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shafer, Sara, editor.

Series:

Probing the boundaries.

Probing the Boundaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

This volume presents studies of narrative and storytelling from historical, methodological and aesthetic points of view from several disciplines and perspectives.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Monarchomachs: Unorthodox Teaching in the 16th and 17th Centuries Jesuit Narrative and Theatre / Moreno Bonda

Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and the Role of Storytelling in Autobiography / Francesca Ferrari

Convergence into THE STORY through Collective Intelligence / Shunichi Ueno

Storytelling in Professional Learning / Gavin Fairbairn

Automatic Writing and the Experience of the Yeatses / Faisal Al-Doori

Suicide and the Search for Empathy in the Works of Franz Kafka

Home(less) Narratives: Female Arab-American Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz / Imen Bouteraa

Narrativising the ‘Other,’ Forming the ‘Self’: The Kāvyas of Medieval Bengal / Saumya Dey

Stories of Dress: Its Importance for Women of Pakistani Heritage Living in the UK / Susan Fairbairn

Stories’ Digest: Narrating Identities and Cultures through Food in Blogs, Cook-Books and Advertisements in India / Sucharita Sarkar

The Cognitive Power of Storytelling: Re-Reading Hannah Arendt in a Postmodernist/Africanist Context / Peter Oni

Storytelling: The Song-Lines of Knowledge Management / Eva Gatarik and Rainer Born

Narrating to Improve, Narrating to Survive / Alda Correia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-235-1

OCLC:

1096240021

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882355 DOI