'Finalist' in the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & Linguistics
Awarded Honors at the Storytelling World Awards 2022 Linking the
ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation
and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the
capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world
and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own
existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination
of how a diverse ecosystem of oral stories and the dynamics of
storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of
conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of
powerful vested interests. Detailed analysis of traditional, true-life
and fictional stories shows how spoken narrative language can imbue
landscapes, creatures and experiences with enchantment and mediate
between the inner world of consciousness and outer world of ecology
and community. A pioneering ecolinguistic and ecocritical study of
oral storytelling in the modern world, Storytelling and Ecology offers
insight into the ways that sharing stories in each other's embodied
presence can open up spaces for transformation in our relationships
with the ecological world around us.
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ISBN
9781350114944
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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