Burning Brightly: New Light on Old Tales Told TodayBroadview Press, 1998 M06 15 - 304 páginas Burning Brightly is the first full-length book treatment of professional storytelling in North America today. For some years there has been a major storytelling revival throughout the continent, with hundreds of local groups and centres springing up, and with storytelling becoming an important part of the professional training for librarians. In the book, Stone explores storytelling through storytellers themselves, while providing enlightening commentary from her own background as a storyteller. Included in her analysis are informative discussions of organized storytelling communities, individual tellers, and tales. Issues such as the modern recontextualization of old tales and the role of women in folktales are linked to individual storytelling accounts. Texts of eight stories that exemplify the approaches of the various storytellers are also included. Burning Brightly will be compelling reading for storytellers—and for everyone who loves storytelling. |
Contenido
Folktales and Organized Storytelling | 3 |
Intentional Storytelling Communities | 33 |
Once Upon a Time Today Tellers and Tales | 57 |
Social Identity in Organized Storytelling | 79 |
INDIVIDUAL TELLERS AND TALES | 95 |
Old Tales New Contexts | 117 |
The Teller in the Tale | 141 |
Difficult Women in Folktales | 177 |
Burning Brightly The Development of a Story | 219 |
The Wedding Feast | 239 |
Four Streams in the Toronto Festival | 251 |
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Acknowledgements | 269 |