Storytelling in the digital age
by Penn, W. S.
"Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, Storytelling in the Digital Age suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, W.S. Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Aimed to amuse, provoke, and propose ideas, this book makes bold new statements about what it means to be human through an interr…
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- Full title :Storytelling in the digital age / W.S. Penn.
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"Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, Storytelling in the Digital Age suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, W.S. Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Aimed to amuse, provoke, and propose ideas, this book makes bold new statements about what it means to be human through an interrogation of a variety of stories told and re-told over thousands of years"--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2013
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (195 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781137365293, 1137365293
- oclc:ocn864900692
- LC Classification:PN56.S7357
- Dewey Decimal:809/.93353
Table of Contents
The anti-conspiracy -- Homecoming's not a dance -- Truth and beauty: when divine horizons shrink and the Gods pack up to leave -- Sex, more sex, and a little corruption -- The nibelungenrap -- Separation of life from life -- Dublin's Polonius -- Censoring the censor -- Death by hot air -- Unsanforized(TM) time -- Hamsters with liquid eyes -- Simplyfying our days -- Weary work -- The life of swans-- Inversions -- In a hole in the house of the famous poet -- Afterword: remembering what we don't know we've lost.
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