Narrative & Storytelling
Storytelling is an ancient form of knowledge transfer and entertainment which has captivated audiences for millennia. This board features pins about narrative construction, storytelling and literary devices.
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Continuing its 20-year obsession with mining the cultural artifacts of American popular culture for intertextual allusions, this opening of The Simpsons pays homage to a spectrum of past TV family sitcoms from The Honeymooners and Dick van Dyke to the Brady Bunch and Cheers. Like all "lightning histories," the montage leaves little room for interpretation or commentary, instead evoking momentary recognition or nostalgia that flattens the past into a cascading sequence of recognizable, iconic...
The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness
The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness | Brain Pickings
Literary mash-ups: why stop at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?
Is the literary mash-up a passing fad or a fertile new genre? The art of mashing up involves putting together two completely incongruous genres, only to discover that something in the high-cultural original matches the low material with which it is mixed.
Significant Objects | …and how they got that way
Significant objects project - a literary and economic experiment about the power of storytelling and the value of objects. It's really worth checking this out if you haven't heard about it. And for my fellow educators- a great resource for teaching material culture or narrative technique.