The Poem in the Story
Music, Poetry, and Narrative
Will be published approx. on 5. November 2002
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-299-18210-6 (ISBN)
Description
Harold Scheub has conducted many investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling. In this work, he searches out what makes a story artistically engaging and emotionally evocative, the metaphorical centre that Scheub calls "the poem in the story".
Reviews / Votes
"Scheub has gone to much greater length than any scholar I know to deduce, by extrapolating from as wide a reach of evidence as possible, the driving aesthetic impulse in a storytelling tradition. His concentrated gaze on the organizing 'lyrical center' enables Scheub to show why a good story is a good story, whether in an oral or a literate tradition."-Isidore Okpewho, SUNY-BinghamtonMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-18210-6 (9780299182106)
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Person
Harold Scheub is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of many books, including Story; The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid; and editor of The World and the Word, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.