Story
Will be published approx. on 28. October 1998
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-0-299-15930-6 (ISBN)
Description
What is the essence of story? The author of this book argues that it is emotion. He aims to show how an expert storyteller uses structural elements - image, rhythm, and narrative - to shape a story's fundamental emotional content.
Reviews / Votes
"Story is as sound and original a piece of scholarship as we have been waiting for in the study of oral narrative performance. . . .written by one of the best scholars who have anything to say on the subject of storytelling."-Isidore Okpewho, author of African Oral LiteratureMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-15930-6 (9780299159306)
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Person
Harold E. Scheub is professor of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To record oral traditions he has walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho. He is the author of The Tongue Is Fire and the editor of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from Xhosa Oral Tradition, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He is also the author of The African Storyteller.