Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.
Contents:
A (Hi)Story of the storyteller -- Reading and writing the storyteller -- The birth of the storyteller: Jim Crace's The Gift of Stones -- Storyteller as outcast: Maria Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller -- The oral storyteller: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Haroun and the Sea of Stories -- (Postmodern) Story/reteller: John Barth's The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor -- Storyteller(-ess): A.S. Byatt's "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye' -- Storyteller as novelist: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello.
Summary:
"Focusing on the figure of the storyteller, this study breaks new ground in the approach to reading contemporary literature by identifying a growing interest in storytelling. ... (It) closely examines this preoccupation with story and storytelling through a close reading of sixteen contemporary international novels written in English which are about actual 'storytellers', revealing how death of the author has given birth to the storyteller."--Publishers website
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