If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundDrawing upon the narratives of Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of essays explores the relationships between territories, peoples and the stories and songs that give meaning to our lives. |
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Page 95
Hector has his funeral ; the Roman storyteller Virgil appears to Dante and leads
him through hell to the hope of heaven ; and Zeus sends his messenger , Hermes
, to persuade Hades to let Persephone return every spring , bringing joy and ...
Hector has his funeral ; the Roman storyteller Virgil appears to Dante and leads
him through hell to the hope of heaven ; and Zeus sends his messenger , Hermes
, to persuade Hades to let Persephone return every spring , bringing joy and ...
Page 98
Some of us may even recognize Dante , sunk in deep depression at the
beginning of the Inferno , describing How hard it is to tell what it was like , this
wood of wilderness , savage and stubborn ( the thought of it brings back all my
old fears ) .
Some of us may even recognize Dante , sunk in deep depression at the
beginning of the Inferno , describing How hard it is to tell what it was like , this
wood of wilderness , savage and stubborn ( the thought of it brings back all my
old fears ) .
Page 153
They often bring reality and the imagination into closer contact , and in doing so
illustrate how stories give us a way of seeing ... The so - called magical realism of
Latin American storytellers brings us closer than we recognize to the everyday .
They often bring reality and the imagination into closer contact , and in doing so
illustrate how stories give us a way of seeing ... The so - called magical realism of
Latin American storytellers brings us closer than we recognize to the everyday .
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| Title | If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground |
| Author | J. Edward Chamberlin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 1857548493, 9781857548495 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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