Storytelling

The ’Voice of the People’ in Some Late-Medieval Miracle-Collections

by Anders Frojmark

In Saints and Sagas: A Symposium. [Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium organized by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at Odense University on 18–19 November, 1991], ed. Hans Bekker-Nielsen & Birte Carlé, 89–108. Odense: Odense University Press 1994. ISBN 87-7838-048-0.

In processes of canonization, accounts of miracles experienced by men and women from all strata of society were... more In processes of canonization, accounts of miracles experienced by men and women from all strata of society were recorded. Highly educated clerics listened carefully to stories told by ordinary people, on whom no writer would otherwise have cared to waste his ink. As André Vauchez has pointed out, the canonization processes constitute the place of a confrontation between the culture of the dominant strata, to which belonged those who ordained and carried out the investigations, and the culture of the lower classes, among which a good number of witnesses were recruited.
In most cases, the records of miracles were brief, but there were pilgrims with talents for storytelling that went beyond the ordinary, who enticed the registrars to exceed the normal formulas. Twenty-nine such stories from the miracles of Birgitta of Sweden, Nils of Linköping and Katherine of Vadstena have been examined for this paper. Behind each of these accounts, there is an original tale that was delivered orally for the registrars, who essentially reproduced it in their texts. Used with methodological caution, this source material presents us with fragments of authentic popular storytelling from the 14th and 15th centuries.

Storytelling through blogging: A knowledge management and therapeutic tool in policing

by Simon Burnett

SIPR Newsletter, September 2011

Brian Boyd’s Evolutionary Account Of Art: Fiction Or Future?

by Jan Verpooten

published in Biological Theory

There has been a recent surge of evolutionary explanations of art. In this article I evaluate one currently... more There has been a recent surge of evolutionary explanations of art. In this article I evaluate one currently influential example, Brian Boyd’s recent book On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (2009). The book offers a stimulating collection of findings, ideas and hypotheses borrowed from a wide range of research disciplines (philosophy of art and art criticism, anthropology, evolutionary and developmental psychology, neurobiology, ethology, etc.), brought together under the umbrella of evolution. However, in so doing Boyd lumps together issues that need to be separated, most importantly, organic and cultural evolution. In addition, he fails to consider alternative explanations to art as adaptation such as exaptation and constraint. Moreover, the neurobiological literature suggests current evidence of biological adaptation for most of the arts is weak at best. Given these considerations, I conclude by proposing to regard the arts instead as culturally evolved practices building on pre-existing biological traits.

Stories and (E)Motions: Travelling in Nicolas Bouvier’s Narratives

by Lénia Marques

Co-authored witth Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia.
Chapter published in:
Narratives of Travel and Tourism, ed. Jacqueline Tivers and Tijana Rakic, Ashgate, 2012, pp. 65-76.

[Excerpt from the Introduction of Chapter 7]

"In this chapter we will focus on the work of the Swiss... more [Excerpt from the Introduction of Chapter 7]

"In this chapter we will focus on the work of the Swiss traveller, Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998), seeking to understand how motivations and, in particular, emotions, feelings, sensations and impressions experienced along the journey are artistically expressed. This study will focus firstly on the interrelationship between travelling/tourism and emotions in the work of one of the landmark writers of travel literature from the second half of the 20th century, and secondly on how this work has encouraged others to travel, write and express themselves by artistic means in the context of an interpretation of this emotional framework."

Multi‐sensory storytelling as an aid to assisting people with profound intellectual disabilities to cope with sensitive issues: a multiple research methods analysis of engagement and outcomes

by Hannah Young

The importance of storytelling in social, cultural and educational contexts is well established and documented. The... more The importance of storytelling in social, cultural and educational contexts is well established and documented. The extension of storytelling to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) has in recent years been undertaken with an emphasis on the value of sensory experience and the context
storytelling provides for social interaction. The present study builds on earlier curriculum orientated research with a view to describe patterns of social and storyoriented interaction during storytelling. The stories dealt with sensitive topics raised by family carers who wished the young person with PIMD to understand. Behavioural observation during storytelling sessions explored changes in engagement while semi-structured interviews with parents and professionals explored the extent to which the experience had benefitted the young person with
respect to the sensitive topic. Positive changes in engagement with the story were shown for seven of the eight participants. For six of the seven, a parent and a professional agreed that the outcome of the experience positively enabled the participant to cope better with the sensitive topic. The specific multi-sensory
storytelling factors leading to these outcomes are discussed, as is the issue of proxy reporting and determining the nature of understanding in people with PIMD.

Persuasive brand management: How managers can influence brand meaning when they are losing control over it

by Oriol Iglesias

Iglesias, O. and Bonet, E. (2012) Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 25 Issue 2, pp. 251 165

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework that enables an improved comprehension... more
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework that enables an improved comprehension of how brand meaning is constructed.

Design/methodology/approach – Conceptual implications are drawn from an analysis and discussion of the literature in the fields of brand management, meanings, rhetoric, and narratives.

Findings – Brand managers are progressively losing control over the multiple sources of brand meaning. Brand meaning is co-created during the consumer-brand relationship and the customer-perceived brand meaning is re-interpreted at each touchpoint that a consumer has with a managerially determined brand interface, a brand employee, or an external stakeholder.

Originality/value – “Persuasive brand management” is presented as a new approach to brand management. It considers that the main activities of managers regarding brand strategy decisions involve processes of interpreting and creating meanings; as well as persuading a wide diversity of internal and external stakeholders.

Il était une fois... la grande nuit du conte

by Yan Hamel

Revue jeu, no 142, 2012.1, p. 158-161.

Mugnaini Basile

by Fabio Mugnaini

Templates of Ideas: The charm of storytlling in academic discourse

by Monika Kostera

Co-authored with Jerzy Kociatkiewicz
Published (1999) in Knowledge Transfer 2/1: 49-69
Unformatted copy

In this text, we argue that the stereotypical, traditional way of academic writing may be disempowering and inhibit... more In this text, we argue that the stereotypical, traditional way of academic writing may be disempowering and inhibit the development of new ideas and practices. We characterize the stereotypical template for academic writing, reflecting on how expression and communication works in relationship to such templates. We illustrate our argument with students’ images of fiction versus academic writing, and an own attempt at “cross-template” translation. The discourse can be enriched, we believe, by colorful, engaging storytelling – a development which is taking place with the growing interest in narrative knowledge.

Narrative Cosmology Article

by Kent Forbes

In the Camera's Lens: An Interview with Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor

by Tim Clack

co-authored with Dr Marcus Brittain (CAU, University of Cambridge, UK)

Each with over thirty years experience with the media, Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor have broadcast their message of... more Each with over thirty years experience with the media, Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor have broadcast their message of archaeology through many different media and in their own individual ways to audiences around the world. Having written
extensively on many archaeological themes for academic and
public audiences, public archaeology in the United States and
the UK has grown and matured through their combined experience and would be much the poorer today if not for their continued passion and energy. When placed together in the
following interview (carried out via email correspondence in
the summer and early winter 2005), their views regarding current
themes from ‘archaeology and the media’ offer insightful
glimpses into the connections and distinctions between British
and American perspectives.

Remembering and Memorialization through Storytelling in Northern Ireland

by Laura Graham

This is a working paper that is currently under peer review.

This paper proceeds from the premise that storytelling is a method for meeting the memorialization needs of victims in... more This paper proceeds from the premise that storytelling is a method for meeting the memorialization needs of victims in Northern Ireland where a lack of consensus has stifled other methods of memory. There are many storytelling outputs, including books, DVDs, crafts, performances and residentials, to name a few. The purpose of this paper is to present one aspect of memory from the conflict in and about Northern Ireland: the process of remembering and memorialization through storytelling. Specifically, this paper will focus on storytelling, as a mechanism designed to meet victims’ needs with respect to allowing them a platform to remember and memorialize their lost loved ones. This paper draws on the fieldwork conducted by the author under the Leverhulme-funded Compromise After Conflict study at The University of Aberdeen. This paper will focus on three of the groups interviewed in the Compromise study and will describe and discuss their unique approaches to storytelling. Each vignette presents a different approach to meeting the memory needs of victims through storytelling. This paper will assess the value of storytelling projects in relation to meeting the memory needs of victims of the Troubles and will draw some conclusions on the benefits and drawbacks of the storytelling approach.

No tale, no sale: a novel approach to marketing communication

by Anthony Patterson

Templates of Ideas: The charm of storytelling in academic discourse

by Jerzy Kociatkiewicz

Co-authored with Monika Kostera
Published (1999) in Knowledge Transfer 2/1: 49-69
Unformatted copy

In this text, we argue that the stereotypical, traditional way of academic writing may be disempowering and inhibit... more In this text, we argue that the stereotypical, traditional way of academic writing may be disempowering and inhibit the development of new ideas and practices. We characterize the stereotypical template for academic writing, reflecting on how expression and communication works in relationship to such templates. We illustrate our argument with students’ images of fiction versus academic writing, and an own attempt at “cross-template” translation. The discourse can be enriched, we believe, by colorful, engaging storytelling – a development which is taking place with the growing interest in narrative knowledge.

Designing Manipulative Technologies for Children With Different Abilities

by Patrizia Marti

Building Narrative experiences for children through real time media manipulation: POGO world

by Patrizia Marti

A triptych of telling: re-figuring the voices of her stories in the novels of Maryse Conde, Assia Djebar, and Alice Walker

by Pamela Rader

Writing After Long Silence

by J. David Velleman

Prepared for a workshop on "Life-Writing" at the Huntington Library. Unpublished: do not cite or quote.

About the life stories in Helen Fremont's After Long Silence, a memoir about discovering that her Polish Catholic... more About the life stories in Helen Fremont's After Long Silence, a memoir about discovering that her Polish Catholic parents were Jewish refugees from the Holocaust.

El advertainment y las transformaciones de los formatos en el ámbito publicitario: el caso de los fashion films

by Marina Ramos

Publicado en Tripodos extra 2009

Resumen: El objetivo principal de esta comunicación es analizar la técnica publicitaria conocida como advertainment... more Resumen: El objetivo principal de esta comunicación es analizar la técnica publicitaria conocida como advertainment mediante un enfoque teórico-práctico que conjuga la exposición de las principales características del concepto de advertainment y su aplicación práctica al análisis del caso concreto de los fashion films.

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the advertising technique known as advertainment through an approach both theoretical and practical. The characteristics of advertainment will be studied and applied to the fashion films case.

Storytelling e politica. Un binomio vincente?

by Marco Cacciotto

Comunicazione Politica, anno XII n.3, 343-364 (2011)

Negli ultimi due decenni lo storytelling è divenuto un elemento fondamentale nelle elezioni post-moderne: Berlusconi,... more Negli ultimi due decenni lo storytelling è divenuto un elemento fondamentale nelle elezioni post-moderne: Berlusconi, Clinton, Bush, Sarkozy e Obama ne hanno fatto uso per trasmettere agli elettori un certo profilo di immagine e un’idea del paese. Gli esponenti politici e i loro consulenti usano lo storytelling per mobilitare le emozioni attraverso la pratica di racconti condivisi, per coinvolgere il cittadino consumatore/ elettore in una relazione durevole ed emozionale. Relazione che è messa a dura prova durante il mandato: chi governa è costantemente esposto ad una contronarrazione da parte dell’opposizione politica che cerca di indebolire il racconto del capo del governo con l’obiettivo di intaccarne la credibilità e il consenso.