Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story

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2019
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Introduction: The Valence of the Story
Part 1 The Nest of Meanings
Chapter 1 The Self Behind (His)Story: Reading the Narrator of Flaubert’s Parrot
Chapter 2 Blind: the Moving Image and the Movements of Imagination
Chapter 3 Narration as a Resurrection of the Dead: the Role of Storytelling in Banville’s Ghosts
Chapter 4 Correspondence and Response: Mythopoesis, Metafiction and the Utopian Impulse
Part 2 These Margins Which Are Not
Chapter 5 Female Literary Body as a Storyteller: on Two Stories Told by Tamora’s Body in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Chapter 6 Germaine de Staël and the Narrative(s) of Her Alter-Ego Corinne: the Example of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s Portrait
Chapter 7 Canadian Identity Construction through ‘Perfect’ English
Chapter 8 Queer Storytellers: Desire and Narrative
Part 3 Virtual Intimacies – Digital Identities
Chapter 9 From Penning to Pinning: Performing ‘Unfinished Stories’ across Social Media Sites
Chapter 10 ‘The Circle Uncoiled, Unwound’: Following Memory’s Storyline with Mystory
Chapter 11 Interactive Documentary and Its Potential for Cultural Heritage Mediation
Part 4 An Ethics of Telling
Chapter 12 The Survivor, the Psychologist, and the Story
Chapter 13 Why We Need to Stop Talking about ‘Child Abuse’: How Pathologizing Discourse Enables Violence against Children
Chapter 14 Telling Is Selling: Stories as Efficient Means to Advertise Luxury Products and Brands
Part 5 Touching/Feeling and the Grain of the Voice
Chapter 15 Storyteller Theatre: Oral Literature Meets Performing Culture – a Middle Eastern Case
Chapter 16 Creating Fairy Tale
Part 6 Changing Scripts – Learning Life
Chapter 17 Reciprocal Narrative Interviewing
Chapter 18 ‘They Say I Am My Own Story. Then, How Can I Change the Plot?’: on How Stories Can Help Us Explore Our Destiny
Carlo Comanducci, Ph.D. (2016), is a junior film scholar and currently teaches film and cultural studies at Vistula University in Warsaw. He has published on various topics, from politics to psychoanalysis and from film theory to queer theory and gesture. Alex Wilkinson, Ph.D. (2013), Lancaster University, was formerly a lecturer in history at Lancaster University, where he focused upon affect, narrativity and the philosophy of history, publishing a number of articles. He has since moved into the UK Civil Service.
Scholars from different disciplines and storytellers interested in a critical perspective on the ethical, theoretical and textual implications of the act of telling, across literature, philosophy, psychology and the arts.
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