Complexities, capacities, communities:changing development narrativesin early…

The term ‘capacity building’ has come into common usage in twenty-first century international development. While the term means different things to different people, it is often used to describe an infusion of knowledge or skills to help ‘build’ a government’s or institution’s ability to address key development challenges. However, like other well intentioned interventions from the …

Deep stories :practicing, teaching, and learning anthropology with digital st…

Have you ever wondered what makes storytelling and digital media a powerful combination? This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The editors of this volume contend that digital storytelling and digital media can create spaces of empowerment and transformation by facilitating multiple kinds of border crossings and conver…

Tellings and texts:music, literature and performance in North India

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9781783741052

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566 p.; 23 cm.

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Owning the Olympics :narratives of the new China

"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover." —Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University …

Narrating China's governance :stories in Xi Jinping's speeches

This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories included in Xi’s speeches on various occasions, where they conveyed the essence of China’s history and culture, its reform and d…

Narrative concepts in the study of eighteenth-century literature

This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthermore, at issue is the question whether the theoretical concepts actually are, despite their appe…

Transmedial narration :narratives and stories in different media

This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms on their own term…

Signs of wali:narratives at the sacred sites in Pamijahan, West Java

In Signs of the Wali, Dr Tommy Christomy focuses on the one of the early founders of Islam on Java, Shakyh Abdul Muhyi, whose burial site at Pamijahan in Tasikmalaya is a place of contemporary ziarah. This study initially conceived of as a philological exploration of historical manuscripts has been transformed into a study of ‘living manuscripts’ – the contemporary narratives of the custo…

Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation

This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations motivate the study: Strong documentation and a relatively large and active speaker community creat…

Prose fiction:an introduction to the semiotics of narrative

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9781783748112

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335 p.

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Playing the text, performing the future :future narratives in print and digiture

This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How ´radical` can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multip…

Discourses we live by:narratives of educational and social endeavour

What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act? Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, p…

narratology of comic art

By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be meaningfully investigated with existing narrative theory, but an interpretive study of the potential in …

Early printed narrative literature in Western Europe

The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in a number of vernacular languages. Did the advent of printing bring about changes in the corpus of narrative texts when compared with the corpus extant in manuscript c…

Ceremonial storytelling :ritual and narrative in post-9/11 US Wars

US society has controversially debated civil-military relationships and war trauma since the Vietnam War. Civic activists today promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for non-Native veteran reintegration and health care. They particularly stress the role of ritual and narrative for civil-military negotiations of war experience and for trauma therapy. Applying a cultural-comparativ…

Storytelling and education in the digital age

While the importance of the role of storytelling can hardly be overestimated, the impact of digitalization on this role is more ambivalent. In this second book-length publication of the programme Media and Education in the Digital Age – MEDA, the authors take a critical stance towards the alleged emancipative affordances of digital storytelling in education. The collection is inspired by the …

Narasi kebangsaan dalam karya budaya Indonesia

Bunga rampai Narasi Kebangsaan dalam Karya Budaya Indonesia hadir di tengah-tengah kegalauan dan hiruk-pikuk ancaman perpecahan yang kita hadapi. Lunturnya rasa kebangsaan, terutama pada generasi muda, menjadi tantangan tersendiri bagi bangsa. Bunga rampai ini hadir istimewa dengan menyajikan keberagaman objek kajian terkait konsep kebangsaan yang termaktub dalam berbagai karya sastra, baik dal…

Wawacan Samun :konvensi dan inovasi dalam puisi naratif Sunda

Teks Wawacan Samun (selanjutnya disingkat: WS) yang menjadi objek penelitian dalam buku ini merupakan salah satu contoh bentuk puisi naratif dalam konteks kesusastraan Sunda, yaitu wawacan. Wawacan adalah cerita panjang atau sejenis hikayat yang ditulis dalam bentuk puisi yang dinamakan dangding. Dangding adalah ikatan puisi yang sudah tertentu untuk melukiskan hal-hal yang sudah tertentu pula.…

Belonging and narrative :a theory of the American novel

Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continu…

Articulating bodies :the narrative form of disability and illness in victoria…

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the …