Storytelling in the Digital Age [electronic resource] /
Penn, W.author.
Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on , the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; One The Anti-conspiracy; Two Homecoming's Not a Dance; Three Truth and Beauty: When Divine Horizons Shrink and the Gods Pack Up to Leave; Four Sex, More Sex, and a Little Corruption; Five The Nibelungenrap; Six Separation of Life from Life; Seven Dublin's Polonius; Eight Censoring the Censor; Nine Death by Hot Air; Ten Unsanforized TM Time; Eleven Hamsters with Liquid Eyes; Twelve Simplifying Our Days; Thirteen Weary Work; Fourteen The Life of Swans; Fifteen Inversions; Sixteen In a Hole in the House of the Famous Poet
Afterword: Remembering What We Don't Know We've LostNotes
Includes bibliographical references.
Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on , the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader.
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.