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OverviewThis collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. Shaw , P. Kelly , L. SemlerPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 5.563kg ISBN: 9781137349941ISBN 10: 1137349948 Pages: 348 Publication Date: 27 November 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Story Streams: Stories and their Tellers; Jan Shaw PART I: INDIGENOUS STORIES 1. The State of the Nation's Narratives; Witi Ihimaera 2. Testimonial Textures: Examining the Poetics of Non-Indigenous Stories about Reconciliation; Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa 3. Indigenous literature in the Pacific: The Question of the Didactic in Storytelling; Raylene Ramsay 4. Mother Stories: The Woman Myth in By the Bog of Cats and Tea in a China Cup; Kristen Liesch 5. (Re)telling the Story of the 1994 Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda: Une Saison de Machetes (Machete Season) by Jean Hatzfeld; Narelle Fletcher PART II: FICTIONAL HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FICTION 6. Transnational Glamour, National Allure: Community, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann's Australia; Meaghan Morris 7. Writing the Story of the Wartime Occupation of the Channel Islands; Peter Goodall 8. War, Wives and Whitewash: The Zookeeper and his Aryan Animals; Julia Petzl-Berney 9. No Man's Land: A Revisionist Story of the Cyprus Problem; Irini Savvides 10. Transnational Storytelling: Visions of Italy in Two New Zealand Novels; Sarah Patricia Hill PART III: THE SEA OF STORIES 11. Shakespeare and the Sea of Stories; Mark Houlahan 12. Reading Chaucer 'in Parts': The Knight's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen; Margaret Rogerson 13. What Women Want: The Shrew's Story; Philippa Kelly 14. Stories of Selves and Infidels: Walter Charleton's Letter to Margaret Cavendish; L. E. Semler 15. 'Telling the story my way': Shakespearean Collaboration and Dialogism in the Secondary School Classroom; Linzy Brady 16. The Tale of Melusine in A. S. Byatt's Possession: Retelling Medieval Stories; Jan Shaw PART IV: CRITICAL CREATIVITY 17. Redcrosse: Storytelling, Nation and Religion in England; Ewan Fernie 18. Paul Auster's Storytelling in Invisible: The Pleasures of Postmodernity; Rosemary Huisman 19. Emotional Rhythm; Ian David 20. Rogues: A Speculation; Sue Woolfe 21. What Would Happen If ...? A Semi-Memoir of a Semi-Philosophical Musician and Sometime Carpenter; Paul Dresher IndexReviewsAuthor InformationLinzy Brady, University of Sydney, Australia Tom Clark, Victoria University, Australia Ian David, screenwriter, Australia Paul Dresher, composer and musician, USA Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, UK Narelle Fletcher, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Goodall, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Sally Hill, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Philippa Kelly, University of California Berkeley, USA Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato, New Zealand Rosemary Huisman, University of Sydney, Australia Witi Ihimaera, writer, New Zealand Kristen Liesch, University of Auckland, New Zealand Meaghan Morris, University of Sydney, Australia Julia Petzl-Berney, University of Tasmania and University of New England, Australia Raylene Ramsay, University of Auckland, New Zealand Margaret Rogerson, University of Sydney, Australia Irini Savvides, writer, Australia L. E. Semler, University of Sydney, Australia Jan Shaw, University of Sydney, Australia Sue Woolfe, writer, Australia Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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