The Metamorphosis of an Oral Tradition: Dissonance in the Digital Stories of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Lorenzo Cherubini
Digital storytelling, a form of short narrative told in the first person and enhanced by visual text and symbolic imagery,…
Thrênoi to Moirológia: Female Voices of Solitude, Resistance, and Solidarity
Andrea Fishman
This essay examines the relationship among gender, lamentation, and death in the Greek lament tradition by comparing ancient Greek literary…
The Anxiety of Writing: A Reading of the Old English Journey Charm
Katrin Rupp
The performative and practical character of the Old English Journey Charm clearly places it within an oral tradition. When the…
Karelia: A Place of Memories and Utopias
Outi Fingerroos
Karelia is a vast inhabited area in northern Europe. The Winter War of 1939-40 and the so-called Continuation War (1941-44)…
Defendiendo la (Agri)Cultura: Reterritorializing Culture in the Puerto Rican Décima
Joan Gross
Through the improvisation of songs based on a sixteenth-century Spanish poetic form in contemporary Puerto Rico, singers symbolically reterritorialize Puerto…
(Re)presenting Ourselves: Art, Identity, and Status in U. K. Poetry Slam
Helen Gregory
The introduction of poetry slam into the U. K. in the mid-1990’s offers an intriguing window into the development of…
Reading Aloud in Dickens’ Novels
Tammy Ho Lai-ming
This paper explores the ways in which Dickens’ writing style was influenced by the Victorian practice of reading aloud. Because…
