New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.
The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and
performance, surrounded by a circle of rapt listeners. Evelyn Birge
Vitz has challenged a generation of scholars to join the circle,
listen as they read, and exchange pen forperformance. A tribute to
her work, the fifteen essays in this volume attend to the qualities
of voice, their registers and dynamics, whether practiced or
impromptu, falsified, overlapping, interrupted or whispered. They
examinehow the book became a performance venue and reshaped the
storyteller's image and authority, and they investigate the
mutability of stories that move from book to book, place to place
and among competing cultures to stimulate cultural and political
change. They show storytelling as far more than entertainment, but
central to law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the
primary mode of delivering news. Themes that crisscross the volume
include tensionsamong amateurs and professionals, dominant and
minority languages and cultures, women and children's engagement
with storytelling, animality, religion, translation, travel,
didacticism and entertainment. Kathryn A. Duys is Associate
Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Foreign
Languages at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois;
Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at
Montclair State University; Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer in
French at Barnard College of Columbia University. Contributors:
Elizabeth Archibald, Maureen Boulton, Cristian Bratu, Simonetta
Cochis, Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, Kathryn A.Duys, Elizabeth Emery,
Marilyn Lawrence, Kathleen Loysen, Laurie Postlewate, Nancy Freeman
Regalado, Samuel N. Rosenberg, E. Gordon Whatley, Linda Marie
Zaerr.
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