Providing an examination of the contemporary search for myth, this book explores the social and psychological roots of the storytelling revival and the ever-resurgent power of the storyteller. Drawing on interviews with storytellers around the country, it paints the revival as part of a larger process of cultural revitalization.
Providing an examination of the contemporary search for myth, this book explores the social and psychological roots of the storytelling revival and th...
William B. McCarthy Joseph Daniel Sobol Cheryl Oxford
The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from actual performances by tellers and eight interpretive essays by leading folktale scholars.
The "two worlds" in the book's title refer to the Jack tales' popularity first among traditional Appalachian taletellers and now among storytelling revivalists. The tellers included in this volume represent both worlds. Unlike previous...
The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in...
The House Between Earth and Sky is a book of multicultural, multilingual proverbs, beliefs, remedies, recipes and, most especially, folktales collected by ESL students during a series of folklore and storytelling residencies at Chicago inner-city secondary schools.
The House Between Earth and Sky is a book of multicultural, multilingual proverbs, beliefs, remedies, recipes and, most especially, folktales collecte...
