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In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.

Storytelling. --- Folklore --- Oral tradition. --- Oral history. --- Performance. --- Tradition, Oral --- Performance of folklore --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Storytelling --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Methodology --- Performance

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The ancient Persian storytelling tradition has survived until the present day among the Tajik villages in the Gissar mountains of Uzbekistan. This book explores the story of Barzu and demonstrates that the historical Transoxania, since the time of Alexander the Great, has always been a melting pot of diverse shared cultures. In the village of Pasurxi, near Boysun in the Surxandaryo region of contemporary Uzbekistan, a vivid oral tradition exists on the basis of stories from the Persian Book of Kings or Šohnoma (Shahnama), composed more than a thousand years ago by the poet Firdavsi (Ferdowsi). These stories deal with the hero Barzu. The storytellers Jura Kamol and Mullo Ravšan composed two different versions of the story of Barzu in the Tajik as spoken in the Surxandaryo region. They used to tell their stories during evening gatherings in the village.

Folklore --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Story telling --- Boysun --- Derde --- Etiquette in Indonesia --- Inro --- Iran --- Jura --- Rostam --- Tajiks --- Uzbeks

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"Analyzes six narratives that illustrate the breadth of the (relatively isolated) Mayan Chuj storytelling tradition, from ancient mythology to current events and from intimate tales of local affairs to borrowedstories"--

Tales. --- Storytelling. --- Maya mythology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- Tales --- Storytelling --- Mythologie maya. --- Chuj language --- Chuj Indians --- Texts. --- Folklore. --- Guatemala --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Mythology, Maya --- Chuh Indians --- Chuhe Indians --- Chuje Indians --- Chujean Indians --- San Mateo Ixtatan Chuj Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Chuh language --- Chujean language --- Mayan languages --- Performance --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Society and culture: general

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"Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. The book also contains links to audio files of some of the works discussed in the text. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling."--Publisher's website.

Folk literature, Indian. --- Folk songs, Indian. --- Storytelling --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Indian folk songs --- Indian folk literature --- Oral tradition --- Literature --- Music --- History. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Performance --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Indian literature --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Oral tradition. --- Storytelling. --- Performance. --- India, North. --- North India. --- India, North --- Northern India --- Uttar Bhārat --- Uttara Bhārata

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This book examines the notion of storytelling in videogames. This topic allows new perspectives on the enduring problem of narrative in digital games, while also opening up different avenues of inquiry. The collection looks at storytelling in games from many perspectives. Topics include the remediation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in games such as Spec Ops: The Line; the storytelling similarities in Twin Peaks and Deadly Premonition, a new concept of ‘choice poetics’; the esthetics of Alien films and games, and a new theoretical overview of early game studies on narrative

play --- n/a --- storytelling --- poetics --- roleplay --- survival horror --- game storytelling --- game narrative --- pornography --- empathy games --- games --- ludonarrative dissonance --- Larry McMurtry --- digital games --- AAA --- mapping --- ludology --- fantasy --- fifth look --- choice poetics --- film --- musicals --- literary adaptation --- choices --- video games --- politics --- gender --- interactive storytelling --- FPS --- narrative games --- Gamergate --- transmedia --- remediation --- narrative theory --- psychology --- the uncanny --- shared vocabulary --- complicity --- ability --- Haraway --- videogames --- Twin Peaks --- Deadly Premonition --- Alien --- gaming --- defamiliarization --- ludonarrative --- Walter Benjamin --- narratology --- carnivalesque --- Bakhtin --- player goals --- interactive digital narrative --- game fiction --- cyborg --- Video games. --- Storytelling --- Computer games. --- Computer games --- Electronic games --- Internet games --- Television games --- Videogames --- Games --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Performance