Narratives Of Storytelling Across Cultures

Author : Tony R. DeMars
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498589421
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Storytelling across Cultures written by Tony R. DeMars and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Storytelling Across Cultures demonstrates how meaning found within interpersonal communication is not universal across all cultures. Miscommunication can occur when the foundations of cultural meaning within stories, as told socially and within media, vary among different cultures. Positioned within the communication and media field, this book connects issues of societal tension and political battles to media portrayals, social communication events, and power dynamics that result when people with different meanings systems attempt to negotiate "truth" among their competing narratives. After establishing the theoretical foundation of the book, contributors provide specific case studies that demonstrate underlying cultural components and complexities that lead to these issues. Tony R. DeMars and Gabriel Tait have assembled contributors with research, experience, and understanding of intercultural communication challenges in different social groups, allowing the book to take on a broader scope of intercultural communication. Scholars of communication, conflict resolution, political science, sociology, and media studies will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Richard Wirth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848884400
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storying Humanity: Narratives of Culture and Society written by Richard Wirth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christina Schachtner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030511898
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrative Subject written by Christina Schachtner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story telling. These narratives discuss interconnectedness, self-staging, and managing boundaries. From the perspective of media and cultural research, they can be read as responses to the challenges of contemporary society. Providing empirical evidence and thought-provoking explanations, this book will be useful to students and scholars who wish to uncover how ongoing processes of cultural transformation are reflected in the thoughts and feelings of the internet generation.

Author : Jelena Cvorovic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storytelling Around the World written by Jelena Cvorovic and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today. This book serves as an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in storytelling and in multicultural approaches to the arts. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines, from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists, use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them. This text addresses stories and storytelling across both time (thousands of years) and geography, including in-depth descriptions of storytelling practices occurring in more than 40 different cultures around the world. Part I consists of thematic essays, exploring such topics as the history of storytelling, common elements across cultures, different media, lessons stories teach us, and storytelling today. Part II looks at more than 40 different cultures, with entries following the same outline: Overview, Storytellers: Who Tell the Stories, and When, Creation Mythologies, Teaching Tales and Values, and Cultural Preservation. Several tales/tale excerpts accompany each entry.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887846963
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289932
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Across Media written by Marie-Laure Ryan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, Narrative across Media is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.

Author : Ravichandran Ammigan
Publisher : Star Scholars
ISBN 13 : 9781736469903
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Narratives written by Ravichandran Ammigan and published by Star Scholars. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living and studying away from home can turn out to be an enriching and rewarding experience for many international students. Yet, many of them struggle to cope with their new university life due to distinct challenges such as cultural differences, language and communication barriers, and a lack of social support. Through a diverse collection of personal essays, this book captures some of the stories of international students as they reflect on their intercultural encounters, expectations, and experiences in their new surroundings and local communities. Essay themes range from culture shock to resilience, and they cover a variety of topics including the ways students change and gain new perspectives by being away from their comfort zone, the feeling of isolation and being an outsider, and the uncertainties of making new friends. This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to walk a mile in the shoes of an international student. It also highlights the importance of a strong support system for students in both the curricular and co-curricular settings and offers insights to international educators and university administrators into creating a welcoming environment that fosters international understanding and cross-cultural awareness on campus.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446591X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions – in families, schools, universities, communities, societies, and networks – that can create or destroy hope. Telling or listening to life stories celebrates complexity, messiness, and the rich potential of learning lives. The narratives in this book highlight the rapid disruption of sustainable ecologies, not only ‘natural’, physical, and biological, but also psychological, economic, relational, political, educational, cultural, and ethical. Yet, despite living in a precarious, and often frightening, liquid world, biographical research can both chronicle and illuminate how resources of hope are created in deeper, aesthetically satisfying ways. Biographical research offers insights, and even signposts, to understand and transcend the darker side of the human condition, alongside its inspirations. Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research aims to generate insight into people’s fears and anxieties but also their capacity to 'keep on keeping on' and to challenge forces that would diminish their and all our humanity. It provides a sustainable approach to creating sufficient hope in individuals and communities by showing how building meaningful dialogue, grounded in social justice, can create good enough experiences of togetherness across difference. The book illuminates what amounts to an ecology of life, learning and human flourishing in a sometimes tortured, fractious, fragmented, and fragile world, yet one still offering rich resources of hope.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691159556
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irresistible Fairy Tale written by Jack Zipes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authorities If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold—and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever-growing variety of media. In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century; Catherine Breillat's film adaptation of Perrault's "Bluebeard"; and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. While we may never be able to fully explain fairy tales, The Irresistible Fairy Tale provides a powerful theory of how and why they evolved—and why we still use them to make meaning of our lives.

Author : Anne Goding
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781634879026
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storytelling written by Anne Goding and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling: Reflecting on Oral Narratives and Cultures is an anthology that focuses on how people share cultural ideals through traditional folktales. The selected readings emphasize the idea that the practice of face-to-face oral narrative strengthens cultural beliefs, attitudes, and values. While modern society provides a staggering number of opportunities to gather information, face-to-face storytelling still has much to offer. It can convey many levels of meaning not available in databases. It contributes to social cohesion, provides ways of understanding the past, and offers the opportunity for a shared experience with others. In addition, the book opens a window on diversity by incorporating concepts such as cultural identity, individualism and collectivism, stratification, stereotyping, and others. The introduction to Storytelling discusses how stories began, and contrasts oral, literary, and electronic traditions. The twelve chapters in the book address the meaning of culture, the purpose of story, the role of characters, and the relationship between storyteller and audience. The book also covers universal themes in storytelling, themes that transcend both culture and time and strike a chord in everyone. These themes include love, jealousy, conceptions of virtue, youth and innocence, and age and wisdom. Attention is given to the role storytelling plays in illness and health, covered in a chapter on healers such as doctors, priests, and shamans. Some featured stories are ancient, such as the tale of the Golem. Others speak to us with the voices of contemporary societies facing contemporary issues, as seen in "John Outruns the Lord" and an examination of racism. The stories invite the reader to travel the world, sharing in the tales of many countries and civilizations. Storytelling: Reflecting on Oral Narratives and Cultures leads readers to a deeper understanding of the critical role played by the narrative tradition over the course of generations. It brings forth stories from past and present, from near and far to demonstrate their power to teach, heal, unify, and empower.