Ray Cashman

Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border

Characters and Community

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ray Cashman analyzes local character anecdotes in detail and argues that while politicians may take credit for the peace process in Northern Ireland, no political progress would be possible without ordinary people using shared resources of storytelling and socializing to imagine and maintain community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 483g
• ISBN-13: 9780253223746
• ISBN-10: 0253223741
• Artikelnr.: 33612671

Autorenporträt

Ray Cashman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Road to Ballymongan
Acknowledgments
1. Goals and Orientations
2. Aghyaran: A Sense of Place and History
3. Ceilis as Storytelling Contexts
4. Wakes as Storytelling Contexts
5. Local Character Anecdotes
6. The Wider Range of Storytelling Genres
7. Anecdotes and the Literary Character
8. Anecdotes and the Local Character
9. Anecdote Cycles and Personality Traits
10. Patterns and Implications
11. Storytelling, Commemoration, and Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index