Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction Story Streams: Stories and their Tellers....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The State of the Nation’s Narratives....Pages 15-27
Testimonial Textures: Examining the Poetics of Non-Indigenous Stories about Reconciliation....Pages 28-41
Indigenous Literatures in the Pacific: The Question of the Didactic in Storytelling....Pages 42-54
(Re)Telling the Story of the 1994 Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda: Une Saison de machettes [Machete Season] by Jean Hatzfeld....Pages 55-65
Front Matter....Pages 66-79
Transnational Glamour, National Allure: Community, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia....Pages 81-81
Writing the Story of the Wartime Occupation of the Channel Islands....Pages 83-113
War, Wives and Whitewash: The Zookeeper and his Aryan Animals....Pages 114-123
No Man’s Land: A Revisionist Story of ‘The Cyprus Problem’....Pages 124-131
Transnational Storytelling: Visions of Italy in Two New Zealand Novels....Pages 132-141
Front Matter....Pages 142-154
Shakespeare and the Sea of Stories....Pages 155-155
What Women Want: The Shrew’s Story....Pages 157-166
Stories of Selves and Infidels: Walter Charleton’s Letter to Margaret Cavendish (1655)....Pages 167-180
‘Telling the Story my Way’: Shakespearean Collaborations and Dialogism in the Secondary School Classroom....Pages 181-190
The Tale of Melusine in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: Retelling Medieval Stories....Pages 191-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-221
Paul Auster’s Storytelling in Invisible: The Pleasures of Postmodernity....Pages 222-237
Emotional Rhythm....Pages 239-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-260
Rogues: A Speculation....Pages 261-276
What Would Happen If …? A Semi-Memoir of a Semi-Philosophical Musician and Sometime Carpenter....Pages 277-285
Back Matter....Pages 239-239
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