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Homo Narrans explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. Author John D. Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the role of individual talent in oral tradition.

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"Linking the performed word of the present with the textual record of the past, Homo Narrans brings together, in mutually productive ways, what have often been contrasted-folklore and literature. This readable and accessible exploration suggests that narrative and narrating are essential ways humanity fashions and refashions itself." * Mary Ellen Brown, Indiana University *
"A well-documented and unusually readable and sensible synthesis of much of the work that has been done on oral culture." * MLR *
"A welcome interweaving of areas too often and too simplistically segregated: folklore and literature, oral tradition and written tradition, performance and text." * Choice *

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 19/03/2010
      ISBN13: 9780812221077, 978-0812221077
      ISBN10: 0812221079
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Homo Narrans explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. Author John D. Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the role of individual talent in oral tradition.

      Trade Review
      "Linking the performed word of the present with the textual record of the past, Homo Narrans brings together, in mutually productive ways, what have often been contrasted-folklore and literature. This readable and accessible exploration suggests that narrative and narrating are essential ways humanity fashions and refashions itself." * Mary Ellen Brown, Indiana University *
      "A well-documented and unusually readable and sensible synthesis of much of the work that has been done on oral culture." * MLR *
      "A welcome interweaving of areas too often and too simplistically segregated: folklore and literature, oral tradition and written tradition, performance and text." * Choice *

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