Performance and Practice : Oral Narrative Traditions Amongst Teenagers in Britain and Ireland (Paperback)

Part 1. Introduction. 1. Definitions, Parameters and Methodologies. Part 2. Issues. 2. Aspects of Performance in Teenage Storytelling. 3. ‘The Hook’, ‘The Mad Axeman’ and ‘The Licked Hand’: Studies in Believability, Fashionability and Popular Circulation. 4. The Rebellious Spirit: Subversion Through Violence and the Supernatural. 5. The Role of Other Media in the Creation, Maintenance and Development of Teenage Oral Narrative Traditions. Part 3. The Stories. 6. The Glutton’s Errand: a Structural Analysis of ‘Johnny, I Want My Liver Back!’. 7. ‘The Singing Bone’: a Traditional Tale in a Modern Context. 8. Personal Narratives in the Teenage Repertoire. 9. Riddles and the Riddling Process.