Storytelling Encyclopedia
Subtitle: Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World
Publisher: Oryx Press
Published: September 23, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781573560252
Subjects: Anthropology; Folklore; Literary studies: general; Oral history; Public speaking / elocution; Reference works; Rhetoric; Oral tradition; Oral And Folk Literature; Storytelling; Reference; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Education; Tales; Children's Literature - Storytelling; Folklore & Mythology; General; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading; Encyclopedias
First sentence: Once upon a time when language and consciousness were sufficiently developed, a human being told a story.