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Myths & Fairy Tales

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What is the essence of story? The author of this book argues that it is emotion. He aims to show how an expert storyteller uses structural elements - image, rhythm, and narrative - to shape a story's fundamental emotional content. Review Story is as sound and original a piece of scholarship as we have been waiting for in the study of oral narrative performance. . . .written by one of the best scholars who have anything to say on the subject of storytelling. Isidore Okpewho, author of "African Oral Literature"" "Story is as sound and original a piece of scholarship as we have been waiting for in the study of oral narrative performance. . . .written by one of the best scholars who have anything to say on the subject of storytelling."--Isidore Okpewho, author of "African Oral Literature" About the Author Harold E. Scheub is professor of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin Madison. To record oral traditions he has walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho. He is the author of "The Tongue Is Fire" and the editor of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani s "The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from Xhosa Oral Tradition," both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He is also the author of "The African Storyteller.""

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Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0299159302
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Myths & Fairy Tales
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 October 1998
Listed Since: 07 February 2007

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