Storytelling, Self, Society Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2018, Long-Form Storytelling Performance)

Storytelling, Self, Society is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to oral narrative in performance, as social or cultural discourse, and in a variety of professional and disciplinary contexts.

Table of Contents

Storytelling, Self, Society Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2018)
Special Issue: Long-Form Storytelling Performance

Introduction to the Special Issue
Joseph Sobol

“Another Story for Another Time”: The Many-Strandedness of a Jewish Woman’s Storytelling Tradition
Simon Heywood

The Ruby Tree [Excerpt]
Shonaleigh Cumbers

Petals and Claws: Landscape and Place in Alan Garner’s The Owl Service
Fiona Collins

Naming, Summoning, Journeying, and Implicating: Rediscovering Orality in Dreaming the Night Field
Michael Harvey

Dreaming the Night Field [Excerpts]
Michael Harvey

Going Long: On Telling Gilgamesh
David Novak

Gilgamesh
David Novak

Book Reviews

On Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination by Paul A. Trout; and Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human by Boria Sax
Dennis Patrick Slattery

On Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin: Naughty, Unexpurgated Stories of the Beloved Wise Fool from the Middle and Far East collected and retold by Ron J. Suresha
Sandra Bird