TY - BOOK AU - Penn,W.S. TI - Storytelling in the digital age SN - 9781137365286 (hbk.) : AV - PN56.S7357 P46 2013 U1 - 809.93353 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, NY PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Literature KW - Appreciation KW - Storytelling KW - Popular culture and literature KW - Storytelling in literature KW - ukslc KW - Literary theory KW - thema KW - Literary studies: poetry & poets KW - Fiction & related items KW - Cultural studies KW - Literature: history & criticism KW - Fiction: general & literary KW - Society & culture: general KW - Relating to LGBTQ+ people KW - Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -