Table Of ContentMatters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story
At the Interface/ Probing
the Boundaries
Founding Editor
Rob Fisher
Advisory Board
Peter Bray (Programme Leader for Counsellor Education, School of Counselling,
Human Services and Social Work Education and Social
Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Robert Butler (Professor/C hair, Department of
History, Elmhurst College, Illinois USA)
Ioana Cartarescu (Independent Scholar, Bucharest, Romania)
Seán Moran (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Stephen Morris (Author and Independent Scholar, New York, USA)
John Parry (Edward Brunet Professor of Law and Associate Dean
of Faculty, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, USA)
Natalia Kaloh Vid (Associate Professor, Department of Translation
Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia)
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Matters of Telling: The
Impulse of the Story
Edited by
Carlo Comanducci and Alex Wilkinson
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction: The Valence of the Story 1
Carlo Comanducci and Alex Wilkinson
Part 1
The Nest of Meanings
1 The Self Behind (His)Story: Reading the Narrator of Flaubert’s
Parrot 19
Andrzej Księżopolski
2 Blind: The Moving Image and the Movements of Imagination 29
Carlo Comanducci
3 Narration as a Resurrection of the Dead: The Role of Storytelling in
Banville’s Ghosts 38
Irena Księżopolska
4 Correspondence and Response: Mythopoesis, Metafiction and the
Utopian Impulse 47
Michael Heitkemper- Yates
Part 2
These Margins Which Are Not
5 Female Literary Body as a Storyteller: On Two Stories Told by Tamora’s
Body in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus 61
Ana Penjak
6 Germaine de Staël and the Narrative(s) of Her Alter- Ego Corinne:
The Example of Élisabeth Vigée- Lebrun’s Portrait 68
Anna Cabac Rédei
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7 Canadian Identity Construction through ‘Perfect’ English 79
Lena Shulyakovskaya
8 Queer Storytellers: Desire and Narrative 87
Alex Wilkinson
Part 3
Virtual Intimacies – Digital Identities
9 From Penning to Pinning: Performing ‘Unfinished Stories’ Across Social
Media Sites 97
Emily Keats and Michael Humphrey
10 ‘The Circle Uncoiled, Unwound’: Following Memory’s Storyline with
Mystory 107
Martha D. Rust and Suzanne England
11 Interactive Documentary and Its Potential for Cultural Heritage
Mediation 116
Nina Dvorko
Part 4
An Ethics of Telling
12 The Survivor, the Psychologist, and the Story 129
Adrianne Aron
13 Why We Need to Stop Talking about ‘Child Abuse’: How Pathologizing
Discourse Enables Violence against Children 136
Julian Burton
14 Telling Is Selling: Stories as Efficient Means to Advertise Luxury
Products and Brands 147
Alexandra Ioana Stanciu and Barbara Malečkar
Contents vii
Part 5
Touching/ Feeling and the Grain of the Voice
15 Storyteller Theatre: Oral Literature Meets Performing Culture –
A Middle Eastern Case 159
Agnieszka Ayşen Kaim
16 Creating Fairy Tale 169
Deborah Eve Freedman
Part 6
Changing Scripts – Learning Life
17 Reciprocal Narrative Interviewing 177
Laurinda Brown and Alf Coles
18 ‘They Say I Am My Own Story. Then, How Can I Change the Plot?’: On
How Stories Can Help Us Explore Our Destiny 185
Alessandra Cosso
Index 197
Illustrations
Figures
6.1 The dialogical model 69
14.1 Conceptual diagram for Hypothesis 3 – effects of the ad structure on
persuasion as enabled by the mechanism of narrative transportation 153
Tables
4.1 Catriona McAra and David Calvin’s comparison of the components of the
traditional ‘Fairy Tale’ to the contemporary ‘Anti- Fairy Tale’a 51
18.1 Here is an idea of how the story can be explored following its narrative
patternsa 192
Notes on Contributors
Adrianne Aron
is a psychologist, human rights activist, and award- winning writer. She
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, usa. adriannearon@
gmail.com.
Laurinda Brown
is a Reader in Mathematics Teacher Education at the University of Bris-
tol. She enjoys editing, having edited international mathematics educa-
tion journals and being one of the three editors for the Story 9 e- book. She
has been a member of the Bristol Collaborative Writing Group (bcwg) for
many years.
Julian Burton
recently earned his PhD in Childhood Studies from Rutgers University. His
research focuses on young people’s rights and social inclusion. He currently
works in science and technology education, and continues to conduct research
in youth political participation and digital media.
Alf Coles
is a Reader in Mathematics Education and Deputy Head of the School of
Education at the University of Bristol. He has a background in collaborative
practitioner-research, engaging across school and university contexts. A re-
cent interest has been in the role of ritualisation in learning number.
Carlo Comanducci
is the author of Spectatorship and Theory: The Wayward Spectator. His re-
search interests include the politics and aesthetics of spectatorship, critical
theory and psychoanalysis. He is currently preparing a book on gesture and
the cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos.
Alessandra Cosso
Director General at Pavia University Osservatorio Storytelling and Deputy Ed-
itor at Rivista Italiana Counselling. A Narrative Counsellor and Coach she in-
tervenes in work organisations focusing on identity and wellbeing issues. She
is part of Istud Business School and Scuola Holden Faculties. www.storytell-
inglab.org.
