Story, Performance, and Event : Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Note on the texts; 1. Introduction: story, performance, and event; 2. 'Any man who keeps more'n one hound'll lie to you': a contextual study of expressive lying; 3. 'We was always pullin' jokes': the management of point of view in personal experience narratives; 4. 'Hell, yes, but not that young!': reported speech as comic corrective; 5. 'I go into more detail now, to be sure': narrative variation and the shifting contexts of traditional storytelling; 6. Conclusion; References; Index.