Tales, Tellers and Texts

by Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle; Drummond, Mary Jane; Styles, Morag

• ISBN13: 9780304706419
• ISBN10: 0304706418
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Offers analysis of a wide range of narratives - oral, visual and written. The contributors include writers, academics, critics, teachers and a museum educator. The book is designed to appeal to school teachers and those involved in the study of children's literature.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction Trafficking in Human Possibilities	1	(12)
Gabrielle Cliff Hodges
I ORAL NARRATIVES	13	(34)
Different - But Oh How Like!	15	(12)
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Betsy Whyte and the Dreaming	27	(9)
Hugh Lupton
Developing Teaching as Storytelling	36	(11)
Grant Bage
II HISTORICAL NARRATIVES	47	(30)
Storyseeds: Creating Curriculum Stories	49	(8)
Fiona Collins
Venturesome Ways: Historical Fiction and the Novels of Henrietta Branford	57	(11)
Judith Graham
The Long Road to Canterbury: Children's Chaucer	68	(9)
David Whitley
III VISUAL NARRATIVES	77	(40)
The Art and the Dragon: Intertextuality in the Pictorial Narratives of Dragon Feathers	79	(16)
Tina L. Hanlon
Tell Me a Picture: Stories in Museums	95	(7)
Frances Sword
`Beware Beware': Image, Word and Apprehension	102	(15)
Jane Doonan
IV LITERARY NARRATIVES	117	(26)
`Play Out the Play': Approaching Shakespeare's Plays with Primary School Children through Active Storytelling	119	(9)
Sarah Gordon
`A Light in the Darkness': George Macdonald's Stories for Children	128	(9)
Mary Jane Drummond
Monologues and Spiels: The `I' of My Poems	137	(6)
Michael Rosen
V NEW NARRATIVES	143	(14)
Past Perfect and Future Conditional: The Challenge of New Texts	145	(12)
Eve Bearne
Name Index	157	(4)
Subject Index	161