The Eternal Storyteller

Author : Vibeke Boerdahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136108505
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Storyteller written by Vibeke Boerdahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.

Author : Vibeke Boerdahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136108424
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Storyteller written by Vibeke Boerdahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.

Author : Vibeke Børdahl
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700704361
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling written by Vibeke Børdahl and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the traditional oral narrative of the Yangzi delta.

Author : Vibeke Børdahl
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
ISBN 13 : 9780887273568
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 楊州古城與楊州評話 written by Vibeke Børdahl and published by Cheng & Tsui. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Storytellers takes us to the teahouses and hidden corners of Yangzhou to explore the ancient art of Chinese storytelling (shuoshu).

Author : Andy Fraenkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989607407
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahabharata written by Andy Fraenkel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foreboding age of Kali approaches. A troubled dynasty hovers on the brink of destruction. Celestials, warriors, demons, and mystics struggle for control of the earth. An epic story that has endured for millennia, Mahabharata reflects the passions and longings of the human spirit.

Author : Qiliang He
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004232443
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilded Voices written by Qiliang He and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949, Qiliang He pieces together published, archival, and oral history sources to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era. By focusing on pingtan, a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, the book documents both the state’s efforts to police artists and their repertoire and storytellers’ collaboration with, as well as resistance to, state supervision and intervention. The book thereby challenges long-held scholarly assumptions about the Chinese Communist Party’s success in politicizing popular culture, patronizing artists, abolishing the cultural market, and enforcing rigid censorship in Mao’s times.

Author : Pat Roy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578678863
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Creating an Eternal Story written by Pat Roy and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know most writers never finish their story? After an exciting start they become bored or lost - well before they make it to the end.This workbook is here to help! Each chapter teaches a new aspect of storytelling, helping you "fill in the blanks" so that by the end you'll have a complete story? BEFORE you even write the first sentence. Best of all you end up with a story where every sentence, paragraph, and scene are filled with purpose.Knowing the content and purpose of every scene gives you storytelling superpowers! Instead of writing from beginning to end, you start by writing the scene you're most passionate about, then the next one that catches your eye. Can you imagine the power of a story in which every scene was written with passion (instead of slogging through from beginning to end)? Jesus was a master storyteller, and one of his most famous is the Parable of the Talents. This workbook will encourage and equip you to use your God-given abilities as a writer to follow Jesus' example and glorify your Master!You will learn how to?Make a Powerful Eternal MessageCome-up With an Intriguing "What if?"Create Interesting CharactersDesign Believable Character ArcsEffectively Use Three ActsMake a Real-Life Story ArcUnderstand Story StructureSo Much More!

Author : Lisa Scottoline
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052553976X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternal written by Lisa Scottoline and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. What war destroys, only love can heal. Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937, all of that begins to change as Mussolini asserts his power, aligning Italy's Fascists with Hitler's Nazis and altering the very laws that govern Rome. In time, everything that the three hold dear--their families, their homes, and their connection to one another--is tested in ways they never could have imagined. As anti-Semitism takes legal root and World War II erupts, the threesome realizes that Mussolini was only the beginning. The Nazis invade Rome, and with their occupation come new atrocities against the city's Jews, culminating in a final, horrific betrayal. Against this backdrop, the intertwined fates of Elisabetta, Marco, Sandro, and their families will be decided, in a heartbreaking story of both the best and the worst that the world has to offer. Unfolding over decades, Eternal is a tale of loyalty and loss, family and food, love and war--all set in one of the world's most beautiful cities at its darkest moment. This moving novel will be forever etched in the hearts and minds of readers.

Author : Lynsay Sands
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1420133969
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternal Highlander written by Lynsay Sands and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing together for the first time, New York Times bestselling authors Lynsay Sands and Hannah Howell present the darkly passionate story of two men sworn to conquer the hunger that pounds in their blood—and the women who may be their only salvation . . . WHEN DARKNESS FALLS . . . Cathal MacNachton and Connall MacAdie are cousins bound by far more than blood ties and the rugged Highland landscape their clan calls home. The ancient curse of their ancestry has fated them to live by night with an unquenchable thirst that neither can tame. The only thing that can save their souls is marriage to Outsiders—mortals whose untainted blood will weaken the curse in their children and break the chains of fear that have made their clan a breed apart. Bridget Callan and Eva Caxton are the women who will shape the clan’s destiny. Marriage to these strange and mysterious men will rescue each of them from desperate circumstances—and draw them into a web of danger, desire, and intrigue . . .

Author : Dennis McCann
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870204513
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Badger Boneyards written by Dennis McCann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longtime newspaper columnist Dennis McCann has spent years visiting Wisconsin’s graveyards, from minuscule family plots to the grand resting places of industry titans. Following the clues in tips from readers, unusual epitaphs, and well-worn stones, Dennis McCann finds the melancholy, the humorous, the tragic, and the universal in Wisconsin’s cities of the dead.