I'm aware of the irony of writing a paper on the oral tradition. However, the state of Irish storytelling today is so complex that to attempt to "tell" it would result in a half-portrait of what's really happening.Review for this paper began with a trip to Ireland to consult with the tellers in person. I interviewed several members of the modern storytelling community, a group of artists whose performances commemorate the fireside storytelling tradition of the past. Back at home, critical texts on economics and anthropology added context to the idea that modern storytelling is an act of culture commemoration. But this paper is not a lament on the loss of tradition. It is a prospectus on how Irish storytelling will survive and even flourish in coming years. The audiences might not look the same, owing to tourism, and the tellers might appear more diverse, owing to globalization, but the general idea remains the same: In Ireland, storytelling will find a way, always. / Village storytelling dynamics -- Village teller : Peig Sayers -- Modern storytelling dynamics -- Modern teller : �Eamon Kelly -- Modern tellers : Eddie Lenihan & Richard Marsh -- Modern tellers : Pat Speight, Kate Corkery & Clare Murphy -- Modern tellers : Narrative Arts Club -- Modern storytelling & globalization -- Modern storytelling & tourism. / Department of Telecommunications

This thesis addresses the representation of old wives' tales and the female storyteller in early modern English literature, with a focus on particular works of drama between 1590-1615. Drawing upon the debased cultural status of female storytellers and their tales, the texts under discussion in this thesis utilise their relationship to feminine tales to express their own engagements with issues both social and artistic: in their relationship to social distinction, to fiction-making, and to authorship. The first chapter investigates the generic associations of tale-telling as represented in literature, focusing on the key physical and social contexts invoked. An analysis of George Peele's The Old Wives' Tale focuses upon the play's central affiliation with oral forms in its representation of the social, thematic, structural setting of its tale-telling frame and inner-play. The chapter posits a social model of distinction in which old wives' tales are part of a larger category of popular pastimes and points toward broader dramatic engagement with the debased nostalgia associated with these pastimes. The second chapter considers the common association between women's tales and childhood, but diverts from the general critical focus on the subjectivity of former children and instead explores the adult patriarch's anxieties elicited around women's vocal sociability and their implied effect upon paternity through the female social dominance during childbirth. In this context, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is fundamentally shaped by the extended birthing ritual of early modern England through its tale-like narrative structure. In doing so, the play engages with women's vocal role both in creating fiction and confirming paternity and women's denigrated social and artistic authority is shown to affirm the transformative power of tales as drama. The third chapter inspects an image of female tale-telling in garrulous alewives in the popular tradition. Examining representations of the bawdy and bodily excess of the jesting alewife and the repellent conviviality of the alehouse community, this chapter scrutinizes the ensuing implications for both authorial production and literary consumption. Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair is explored through Jonson's usage of the female victualler, Ursula the pig-woman, to engage with an ambivalent message of debasement as the common condition and the communal participation in morally relativistic modes of consumption.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas Woman's University, 1983. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-249).

The Storytellers' Journeys: A Study Using Portraiture Method is an in-depth study of three highly recognized storytellers, Michael Lacapa, Patricia Preciado Martin, and Joe Hayes. These artists were studied using a qualitative research method developed by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot called portraiture. Portraitists study individuals to record their experiences and to interpret their perspectives. The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which professional struggles were considered barriers, preventing access to a career or to career goals. I developed questions that allowed me to gather information concerning the storytellers' professional struggles and their style of dealing with those struggles. I also probed for their individual definition of success, the measuring stick they use as a determination of their success, and if they relied on perseverance to reach their level of success. I tape-recorded interviews with the storytellers in order to transcribe them. I acquired supplemental data by attending the storytellers' public performances and by referring to published information about them. After critically reviewing the data I organized it into thematic areas. Each of the storytellers was treated individually. Lawrence-Lightfoot says, "The development of emergent themes reflects the portraitist's first efforts to bring interpretive insight, analytic scrutiny, and aesthetic order to the collection of data" (1997c, pg. 185). Initially, the three artists said that they did not have to contend with professional obstacles to reach their level of success. However, the analysis of the in-depth interviews showed that all the storytellers dealt with professional complications, but they did not allow those complications to interfere with their goals. In fact, one of the artists merely cited those situations as "dues that needed to be paid." Because the portraiture method encourages researchers to include themselves in their studies, I became the fourth storyteller in the project. I did the same introspective process about my careers that I asked of the other storytellers. My self-analysis supported some of the results I obtained from the other artists but it also showed some differences. These differences are explored in the dissertation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1972. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, leaves [365]-371).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1997. / Director: Jonathan D. Spence. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2000. / Bibliography: leaves 453-487.

Orientador(a): Suely Master / Coorientador(a): Sissy Veloso Fontes / Banca: Lilian Freitas Vilela / Banca: Adélia Maria Nicolete Abreu / Resumo: Narradores de Passagem é um projeto de ação solidária que, através da atuação de narradores de histórias em hospitais, apoia e conforta as pessoas envolvidas nas complexas passagens da vida. Nessa atuação percebeu-se o surgimento de uma escuta atenta e potente, bem diversa da cotidiana. Assim, o presente estudo objetivou apresentar reflexões sobre as características de uma escuta acolhedora, instaurada no ambiente hospitalar e apresentar conceitos pertinentes ao impacto da escuta, quando manifestada com qualidade superior de atenção. A relevância deste estudo está em descobrir que a maneira de estabelecer relações suscita outras formas de intervenções capazes de transformar ambientes e atitudes. A metodologia, com abordagem de natureza qualitativa e fundamentada em estudo teórico-empírico, está apoiada em revisão de literatura e depoimentos dos participantes do projeto. A literatura encontrada e os depoimentos apresentaram o impacto positivo da escuta nas pessoas quando manifestada com qualidade plena de atenção. Dos depoimentos emergiram quatro categorias de participantes - pacientes, acompanhantes, equipe profissional de saúde e Narradores de Passagem - que retrataram suas impressões positivas logo após o encontro narrativo. Concluiu-se que os depoimentos, apoiados na revisão da literatura e na experiência empírica da autora deste estudo, registraram o valor do contato humano no ambiente hospitalar que pode contribuir com práticas mais saudáveis e ambientes mais acolhedores... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Narrators de Passage is a project of solidarity action that, through the action of storytellers in hospitals, gives support and comfort to people during complex passages of their lives. During this process, it was noticed that an attentive and powerful listening appeared, very different from the everyday attention. Thus, the present study aimed to present reflections on the characteristics of a friendly listening established in the hospital environment and present concepts pertinent to the impact of this listening when manifested with superior quality of attention. The relevance of this study is in to discover that the way of establishing relationships enable other forms of interventions capable of transforming environments and attitudes. The methodology, with a qualitative approach and based on theoretical-empirical study, is supported by review of the literature and testimonials of the project participants. The literature and the testimonies showed a positive impact of listening to people with full attention. From the testimonies emerged four categories of participants - patients, companions, health professionals team and Narradores da Passagem Narrators of Passage - who portrayed their positive impressions shortly after the narrative encounter. The testimonies, supported by the literature and the empirical experience of the author of this study, registered the value of the human contact in the hospital environment, something that can contribute to healthier practices and... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Claudio Marcondes de Castro Filho / Banca: Sueli Bortolin / Banca: Márcia Cristina de Carvalho Pazin Vitoriano / Resumo: Tendo em vista a importância da leitura, este trabalho trata de um tema importante para a promoção da leitura: a contação de histórias e o profissional que as conta. Contar histórias é uma arte milenar. Antes de se ter algo escrito no papel, da existência de gêneros textuais como contos, romances, notícias escritas e registradas em livros e jornais, entre outros tipos de suportes anteriores à web, já se processava a narração, persistindo o contar um causo. Nos tempos atuais, com todas as tecnologias de informação e comunicação, e com a vida apressada em que se vive, acaba-se deixando passar práticas como a de contar histórias. Neste trabalho serão abordados os contadores de histórias com os quais a autora possui contato, e também contadores de histórias do Brasil, que se unem para discussões em páginas do Facebook. Nesse aspecto, o trabalho tem como objetivo geral entender a contação de histórias como mediação oral da informação, assim como conhecer os profissionais que atuam nesse campo. E, como objetivos específicos: a) mapear quem são os contadores de histórias; b) identificar quais são os perfis destes contadores de histórias; c) determinar quais são suas práticas e recursos; d) apresentar os locais em que atuam os contadores de histórias. Foi feito no final da pesquisa um mapa conceitual do que é ser contador de histórias e qual o papel social do contador de histórias, definição esta pelos próprios contadores que responderam a pesquisa. / Abstract: Considering the importance of reading, this work deals with an important theme for the promotion of reading: storytelling and the professional that counts them. Storytelling is an ancient art, before having something written on paper, there are stories, novels, news stories written and recorded in books, newspapers and among other types of media, even before the web world, there was narration (and there is still ) or 'tell a story'. Nowadays, with all the technologies of information and communication, and with the hurried life in which one lives, one end up letting go of practices like "storytelling". In this work the storytellers in which the author has contact will be approached, as well as storytellers from Brazil, who come together for discussions on Facebook pages. In this aspect, the work has as general objective to understand storytelling as oral mediation of the information, as well as to know the professionals who work in this field. And as specific objectives: a) to map who are the storytellers; b) identify the profiles of these storytellers; c) determine their practices and resources; d) present the places where storytellers work. The research is still in the development phase not having, by the hour final results. / Mestre

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