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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Storyteller"”.
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Storyteller
Creative non-fiction, essays, and poetry.
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The storyteller's voice: The dialogic art of Elizabeth Gaskell.
Elizabeth Gaskell was a gifted storyteller. Her letters and her fiction attest to an imagination rooted in oral narrative, marked by the digressiveness and dispersiveness of living speech. She wrote her first novel, she said, as if she were "speaking to a friend over the fire on a winter's night," …
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Sandra Cisneros as Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories in Caramelo
My thesis discusses the ways in which Sandra Cisneros makes historical claims from a Chicana perspective by telling fictional family stories in Caramelo. Not only have Chicanas traditionally been marginalized ethnically by the Anglo mainstream, they have also suffered disenfranchisement as women in …
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The contemporary storyteller in context: a study of storytelling in modern society
Professional storytellers and their work over the past three decades have been acknowledged as a field worthy of study by many scholars. While drawing from traditional sources and abstract concepts concerning what is traditional storytelling, contemporary storytelling practitioners' methods often …
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Imulating storyteller-audience interactions in digital storytelling: questions, exchange structures & story objects
… Study One was an ethnography, of real storytellers, which revealed types of narratives, dynamism and interactivity in storytelling. This was used to design digital storytelling, which simulated the behaviours of real storytellers. Three design ideas, questions, exchange structures and …
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Stories of war and restitution Curating the narratives of the !xun storyteller Kapilolo Mahongo (1952 – 2018)
… to open up a space in which the !xun leader and storyteller, Kapilolo Mario Mahongo, could actively engage the energy of storytelling in representing his personal history and for the first time, record an Indigenous !xun perspective of the regional wars during the latter part of the 20th century …
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Cinematographer as storyteller : how cinematography conveys the narration and the field of narrativity into a film by employing the cinematographic techniques.
Many researchers recognise the importance of the role of cinematography in films. A cinematographer apart from his technical abilities can be a creative addition to any film production. The role of the cinematographer in support of the director's vision can develop narratives in films with an …
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The storytelling tradition and documentary moviemaking
… television. The documentary moviemaker and the storyteller are potentially seeking the same quest as explorers of reality. They want to teach their listeners (viewers), and need "reality" as a canvas for telling stories. A personal examination of my documentary, By Word of Mouth...Storytelling …
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Their eyes were watching Zora: storientation, black girl magic, and Afrofuturistic implications for educators
… a sequence beginning with Me: Educator as Storyteller, where educators reflect on their narratives; Her: Mentor Text as Storyteller, using multimodal texts that highlight Black girls’ experiences; They: Black Girls as Storyteller Apprentices, providing Black girls opportunities to express …
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Everyday storytelling : supporting the mediated expression of online personal testimony
… Mediated Storytelling', a model of the casual storyteller's process of capturing, creating and sharing personal mediated narratives. The purpose of this model is to better support rich-media storytelling through systems that enable storytellers to engage with personal media in a reflective, …
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Rock & Roll: a novel
… itself, the relationship between the storyteller and the story, between the storyteller and the audience, something that goes right back to an essential distinction between Homer, the bard, and Odysseus, the teller of tales who gets to relate his own remarkable, perhaps even …
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Slaying Literature: Metaphor and Characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon is a storyteller who created Buffy the Vampires Slayer, a television series about a young girl who is chosen to fight the supernatural evil. She makes friends who help her when she needs it, and enemies who are frequently demonic and generally evil. Whedon uses many metaphors in the …
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Story as an Approach for Facilitating a Knowledge Management Innovation
… and what happened from the perspective of the storyteller. The study revealed the role of storytelling during the organizational initiative. This qualitative study analyzed eleven written and oral stories using grounded theory. Also using grounded theory, six tellers' interviews were analyzed …
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The Role of The Narrator in Italo Calvino's Fiction
… well as into his sceptical reflections. In his storyteller Calvino has created more than just a naively amusing observer, but an ambivalent portrait of contemporary man. It is precisely this darker side to Calvino's narrator and his humor, the modernist (and post-modernist) attitudes that …
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