Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches [electronic resource] /
Shaw, J.editor.
Kelly, P.editor.
Semler, L.editor.
This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Story Streams: Stories and their Tellers; Part I Indigenous Stories; 1 The State of the Nation's Narratives; 2 Testimonial Textures: Examining the Poetics of Non-Indigenous Stories about Reconciliation; 3 Indigenous Literatures in the Pacific: The Question of the Didactic in Storytelling; 4 Mother Stories: The Woman Myth in By the Bog of Cats and Tea in a China Cup; 5 (Re)Telling the Story of the 1994 Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda: Une Saison de machettes [Machete Season] by Jean Hatzfeld
Part II Fictional History and Historical Fiction6 Transnational Glamour, National Allure: Community, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann's Australia; 7 Writing the Story of the Wartime Occupation of the Channel Islands; 8 War, Wives and Whitewash: The Zookeeper and his Aryan Animals; 9 No Man's Land: A Revisionist Story of 'The Cyprus Problem'; 10 Transnational Storytelling: Visions of Italy in Two New Zealand Novels; Part III The Sea of Stories; 11 Shakespeare and the Sea of Stories; 12 Reading Chaucer 'in Parts': The Knight's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen
13 What Women Want: The Shrew's Story14 Stories of Selves and Infidels: Walter Charleton's Letter to Margaret Cavendish (1655); 15 'Telling the Story my Way': Shakespearean Collaboration and Dialogism in the Secondary School Classroom; 16 The Tale of Melusine in A. S. Byatt's Possession: Retelling Medieval Stories; Part IV Critical Creativity; 17 Redcrosse: Storytelling, Nation and Religion in England; 18 Paul Auster's Storytelling in Invisible: The Pleasures of Postmodernity; 19 Emotional Rhythm; 20 Rogues: A Speculation
21 What Would Happen If ...? A Semi-Memoir of a Semi-Philosophical Musician and Sometime CarpenterIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism.
Literature   .
Creative writing.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Creative Writing.
Medieval Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.