Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and Narrative

by Harold Scheub

Book Overview

Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur. This is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the area--where ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forces--that Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem in the Story.
In a career devoted to exploring the art of the African storyteller, Scheub has conducted some of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299182142
• ISBN13: 9780299182144
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"