The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction
Author:   Dr Areti Dragas (University of Durham, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781474275675


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   25 February 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Dr Areti Dragas (University of Durham, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9781474275675


ISBN 10:   1474275672
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   25 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements \ Introduction \1. The Story of the Storyteller \ 2. Reading and Writing the Storyteller \ 3. The Birth of the Storyteller: Jim Crace's The Gift of Stones \ 4. Storyteller as Outcast: Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller \ 5. The Oral Storyteller: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and Haroun and the Sea of Stories \ 6. Postmodern Story/reteller: John Barth's The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor \ 7. Storyteller-ess: A. S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye \ 8. Storyteller as Author: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man \ Bibliography \ Index

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Areti Dragas works as a teaching fellow and associate tutor at Durham University and has worked as visiting lecturer at the University of Sunderland, UK.

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