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Storytelling in the digital age / W.S. Penn.

By: Penn, W. S [author.]Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: x, 195 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0021870413ISBN: 9781137365286 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Literature -- Appreciation | Storytelling | Popular culture and literature | Storytelling in literature | Literature | Literary theory | Literary studies: poetry & poets | Fiction & related items | Cultural studies | Literature: history & criticism | Fiction: general & literary | Society & culture: general | Relating to LGBTQ+ people | Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minoritiesDDC classification: 809.93353 LOC classification: PN56.S7357 | P46 2013
Contents:
Preface 1. The Anticon 2. Homecoming's Not a Dance 3. Truth and Beauty 4. Sex, More Sex, and Little Corruption 5. The Nibelungenrap 6. Separation of Life from Life 7. Dublin's Polonius 8. Censoring the Censor 9. Death by Hot Air 10. Unsanforized Time 11. Hamsters with Liquid Eyes 12. Simplifying Days 13. Weary Work 14. The Life of Swans 15. Inversions 16. In a Hole in The House of the Famous Poet Afterword: Remembering What We Don't Know We've Lost
Summary: Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from 'The Odyssey' on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader.
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Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on , the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface 1. The Anticon 2. Homecoming's Not a Dance 3. Truth and Beauty 4. Sex, More Sex, and Little Corruption 5. The Nibelungenrap 6. Separation of Life from Life 7. Dublin's Polonius 8. Censoring the Censor 9. Death by Hot Air 10. Unsanforized Time 11. Hamsters with Liquid Eyes 12. Simplifying Days 13. Weary Work 14. The Life of Swans 15. Inversions 16. In a Hole in The House of the Famous Poet Afterword: Remembering What We Don't Know We've Lost

Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from 'The Odyssey' on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • 1 The Anticon
  • 2 Homecoming's Not a Dance
  • 3 Truth and Beauty
  • 4 Sex, More Sex, and Little Corruption
  • 5 The Nibelungenrap
  • 6 Separation of Life from Life
  • 7 Dublin's Polonius
  • 8 Censoring the Censor
  • 9 Death by Hot Air
  • 10 Unsanforized Time
  • 11 Hamsters with Liquid Eyes
  • 12 Simplifying Days
  • 13 Weary Work
  • 14 The Life of Swans
  • 15 Inversions
  • 16 In a Hole in The House of the Famous Poet
  • Afterword: Remembering What We Don't Know We've Lost

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