03630nam 2200601Ia 450 991097092070332120200520144314.097802991821370299182134(CKB)1000000000815848(OCoLC)631158899(CaPaEBR)ebrary10329989(SSID)ssj0000341543(PQKBManifestationID)11233746(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341543(PQKBWorkID)10395521(PQKB)11114827(MiAaPQ)EBC3444870(Perlego)4390118(EXLCZ)99100000000081584820020328d2002 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe poem in the story music, poetry, and narrative /Harold Scheub1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc20021 online resource (xx, 316 pages) illustrations, mapBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780299182106 029918210X Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prelude -- The Poem and the Story: The Poetics of Storytelling -- The Poem -- The Story -- The Poem in the Story: Myth, Music, Metaphor -- Myth: The Raw Materials-Myth and Transformation -- Music: Ordering the Raw Materials-The Creation of Metaphor -- Metaphor: Preparation for Performance-Myth, Metaphor, Meaning -- A Storyteller Guards the Poem in Her Story -- Postlude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur. This is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the area-where ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forces-that Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem in the Story. In a career devoted to exploring the art of the African storyteller, Scheub has conducted some of the most interesting and provocative investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling, the complex relationship between artist and audience, and, most dramatically, the role played by poetry in storytelling. This book is his most daring effort yet, an unconventional work that searches out what makes a story artistically engaging and emotionally evocative, the metaphorical center that Scheub calls "the poem in the story." Drawing on extensive fieldwork in southern Africa and decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Scheub develops an original approach-a blend of field notes, diary entries, photographs, and texts of stories and poems-that guides readers into a new way of viewing, even experiencing, meaning in a story. Though this work is largely focused on African storytelling, its universal applications emerge when Scheub brings the work of storytellers as different as Shakespeare and Faulkner into the discussion. Folk musicAfricaFolk poetry, AfricanOral traditionSouth AfricaTalesSouth AfricaHistory and criticismFolk musicFolk poetry, African.Oral traditionTalesHistory and criticism.398.2/0968Scheub Harold661243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970920703321The poem in the story2805467UNINA