Author : Lucía M. González
Publisher : Children's Book Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780892392223
During the early years of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican library, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.
Author : James a Whittaker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2017-04-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781546393702
There is a big difference between transmitting facts to an audience and transforming the way people think. The former is the choice of most speakers and explains why from classrooms to conference rooms, boredom is the primary experience audiences receive. Far too many speakers either don't take their audiences seriously and squander the opportunity the stage offers, or - even worse - assume that their natural charisma is far stronger than it actually is. This is good news for you. Most people's inability to engage an audience is your opportunity. Nearly every stage the world presents is yours for the taking. All it takes is a little magic. And here's the really good news, that magic is accessible to you. That's right, YOU. All the spells you need to work magic of your own are right here in this book. Prepare to wow your audiences and reap the career benefits of magical stagecraft.
Author : Will Storr
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 168335818X
The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytelling Stories shape who we are. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions and mold our beliefs. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. So, how do master storytellers compel us? In The Science of Storytelling, award-winning writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can write better stories, revealing, among other things, how storytellers—and also our brains—create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change. Will Storr’s superbly chosen examples range from Harry Potter to Jane Austen to Alice Walker, Greek drama to Russian novels to Native American folk tales, King Lear to Breaking Bad to children’s stories. With sections such as “The Dramatic Question,” “Creating a World,” and “Plot, Endings, and Meaning,” as well as a practical, step-by-step appendix dedicated to “The Sacred Flaw Approach,” The Science of Storytelling reveals just what makes stories work, placing it alongside such creative writing classics as John Yorke’s Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey into Story and Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing. Enlightening and empowering, The Science of Storytelling is destined to become an invaluable resource for writers of all stripes, whether novelist, screenwriter, playwright, or writer of creative or traditional nonfiction.
Author : Dave Grohl
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 006307611X
The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.
Author : J.A. Scarecrow
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1642141798
Its a fantasy story about old-fashioned storytelling with some short stories in it. Theres a stranger who stumbles into the town of Storyteller who has to win over the entire town through the art of storytelling on their main stage. There are stories about rainbows, unicorns of different colors, a pumpkin with huge dreams, Mother Nature, and a whispering rainbow rose. Theres a magical little sprite that changes colors. Theres a story that decides if a little girl can stop pirates from invadin
Author : Doug Lipman
Publisher : august house
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780874835304
The first steps in storytelling are often easy, because we tell stories informally every day. Once you take storytelling into the more formal contexts of performance or occupational uses, however, you may be faced with challenges you hadn't anticipated. You need information that goes beyond the basics. And you need it in a form that does not just tell you what to do but helps you make your own informed decisions. This book is meant for the reader who has already begun to tell stories and is ready to learn more about the art. Instead of rules to follow, it gives you a series of frameworks that encourage you to think on your feet. Doug Lipman has written and taught extensively on the art of storytelling. With the same generosity and warmth that characterize his workshops, he considers the teller's relationship to the story, the teller's relationship to the audience, and the transfer of imagery in a medium that is simultaneously visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784783072
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
Author : William Mooney
Publisher : august house
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874834826
Guide to becoming a better storyteller, with advice from more than fifty of America's best-known storytellers, who answer questions about such issues as creating original stories, controlling stage fright, marketing and setting fees, and using storytelling in the library and classroom.
Author : Joseph Daniel Sobol
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1999
Category : National Storytelling Festival
ISBN : 9780252067464
This is the seed of The Storytellers' Journey, Joseph Daniel Sobol's history of the past thirty years of American storytelling. In this compelling examination of the contemporary search for myth, Sobol explores the social and psychological roots of the storytelling revival and the ever-resurgent power of the storyteller. Drawing on interviews with dozens of storytellers around the country, Sobol paints the revival as part of a larger process of cultural revitalization. He traces the growth of the preeminent revival organization, the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS), and details the individual passions, the organizational politics, and the economic, social, and mythic forces that have combined to transform a ragtag assemblage of enthusiasts into a national and international network of arts professionals. A seemingly chance encounter between a restlessly ambitious high school teacher and a coonhunting tale on the car radio sets off a chain of inspirations that changes the face of a small southern town, touches lives across America, and revitalizes a homely but treasured art form.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 168137059X
A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work. “The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of The Storyteller Essays starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.
