The Creation of Persona in the Performance of Personal Oral Narrative
Author : Amy S. Burt
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Amy S. Burt
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 1986-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521311113
An analysis of Texan oral narratives that focuses on the significance of their social context. Although the tales are all from Texas, they are considered representative of oral storytelling traditions in their relationships between story, performance and event.
Author : Charles Parrott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1000994945
Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text offers a practical method for composing and performing personal narrative stories for artistic and academic purposes. It is designed to make storytelling accessible to seasoned performers and people who are engaging with the artform for the first time. The author’s unique method of composing stories from action to text privileges oral composition over writing. It draws on anecdotes from the author’s many years of coaching storytellers to illustrate concepts throughout the book, making it entertaining and user-friendly. The methods contained in this book can help students and scholars communicate theoretical and scholarly arguments about culture, gender, race, and the environment. Anyone looking to harness the power of personal storytelling to speak about the political and the personal—in a classroom or on a stage—will find Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text of great use. Additionally, the book will be of interest to qualitative researchers and those applying autoethnographic and storytelling methods in communication studies and other related social science and arts disciplines.
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Page : 618 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : Jeffrey Quilter
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0292774338
The Inka Empire stretched over much of the length and breadth of the South American Andes, encompassed elaborately planned cities linked by a complex network of roads and messengers, and created astonishing works of architecture and artistry and a compelling mythology—all without the aid of a graphic writing system. Instead, the Inkas' records consisted of devices made of knotted and dyed strings—called khipu—on which they recorded information pertaining to the organization and history of their empire. Despite more than a century of research on these remarkable devices, the khipu remain largely undeciphered. In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings? The authors approach the problem from a variety of angles. Several essays mine Spanish colonial sources for details about the kinds of narrative encoded in the khipu. Others look at the uses to which khipu were put before and after the Conquest, as well as their current use in some contemporary Andean communities. Still others analyze the formal characteristics of khipu and seek to explain how they encode various kinds of numerical and narrative data.
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Page : 806 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Dissertation abstracts
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Author : Ryan Claycomb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472903330
Some of theater’s most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of "verbatim theater," socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. Performances such as Fires in the Mirror, The Laramie Project, and The Vagina Monologues have at their best demonstrated how to hold hard conversations about explosive subjects in a liberal democracy. But in this moment of what author Ryan Claycomb terms the “rightward lurch” of western democracies, does this idealized space of democratic deliberation remain effective? In the Lurch asks that question in a pointed and self-reflexive way, tracing the history of this branch of documentary theater with particular attention to the political outcomes and stances these performances seem to seek. But this is not just a disinterested history—Claycomb reflects on his own participation in that political fantasy, including earlier scholarly writing that articulated with breathless hopefulness the potential of verbatim theater, and on his own theatrical attendance, imbued with a belief that witnessing this idealized public sphere was a substitute for actual public participation. In the Lurch also recounts the bumpy path towards its completion, two years marked by presidential impeachments, an insurrection, a national reckoning with racism, and a global pandemic. At the heart of the book is a central question: is verbatim theater any longer an effective cultural response to what can look like the possible end of democracy?
Author : Brian Sutton-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136546111
A groundbreaking collection of essays on a hitherto underexplored subject that challenges the existing stereotypical views of the trivial and innocent nature of children's culture, this work reveals for the first time the artistic and complex interactions among children. Based on research of scholars from such diverse fields as American studies, anthropology, education, folklore, psychology, and sociology, this volume represents a radical new attempt to redefine and reinterpret the expressive behaviors of children. The book is divided into four major sections: history, methodology, genres, and setting, with a concluding chapter on theory. Each section is introduced by an overview by Brian Sutton-Smith. The accompanying bibliography lists historical references through the present, representing works by scholars for over 100 years.
Author : Rajesh Heynickx
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1350153184
While most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted. Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at architectural theory through the lens of intellectual history. Eleven original essays explore a variety of themes and contexts, each examining how architectural knowledge has been transferred across social, spatial and disciplinary boundaries - whether through the international circulation of ideas, transdisciplinary exchanges, or transfers from design practice to theory and back again. Dissecting the frictions, transformations and resistances that mark these journeys, the essays in this book reflect upon the myriad routes that architectural knowledge has taken while developing into architectural theory. They critically enquire the interstices – geographical, temporal and epistemological – that lie beyond fixed narratives. They show how unstable, vital and eminently mobile the processes of thinking about architecture have been.
Author : Louise K. Barnett
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780826326751
An exciting collection of new essays on the work of the outstanding American Indian woman writer.