Matters of Telling: the Impulse of the Story: The Impulse of the Story

In this book, multiple authors and perspectives converge on the materiality of storytelling in order to court its potentialities and flesh out its tensions. Reflecting through its methodological multiplicity not only the vast array of discourses and disciplines that concern themselves with the study of narration, but also the various and variable subjects of the act of telling, the collective effort of this volume is less to map or track than to amplify the possibilities of contingent situations, embodied relations and specific texts in which, beyond the tale, the telling itself speaks and matters. The self behind (his) story: reading the narrator of Flauberts Parrot / Andrzej Ksiezopolski Blind: the moving image and the movements of imagination / Carlo Comanducci Narration as the resurrection of the dead: the role of storytelling in Banvilles Ghosts / Irena Kseizopolska Correspondence and response: mythopoesis, metafiction, and the utopian impulse / Michael Heitkemper-Yates Female literary body as a storyteller: on two stories told by Tamora’s Body in William Shakespeares Titus Andronicus / Ana Penjak Germainde de Stael and the narrative(s) of her alter-ego Corinne: the example of Elisabeth Vigee-Lebruns portrait / Anna Cabak Redei Canadian identity construction through perfect English / Lena Shulyakovskaya Queer storytellers: desire and narrative / Alex Wilkinson From penning to pinning: performing unfinished stories across social media sites / Emily Keats and Michael Humphrey The circle uncoiled, unwound: following memories storyline with Mystory / Martha D. Rust and Suzanne England Interactive documentary and its potential for cultural heritage mediation / Nina Dvorko The survivor, the psychologist, and the story / Adrianne Aron Why we need to stop talking about child abuse: how pathologizing discourse enables violence against children / Julian Burton Telling is selling: stories as efficient means to advertise luxury products and brands / Alexandra Ioana Stranciu and Barbara Maleckar Storyteller theatre: oral literature meets performing culture a Middle Eastern case / Agnieszka Aysen Kaim Creating fairy tale / Deborah Eve Freedman Reciprocal narrative interviewing / Laurinda Brown and Alf Coles They say I am my own story. Then how can I change the plot? : On how stories can help us explore out destiny / Alessandra Cosso