Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck

by Tom Hahn

Essays exploring the reshaping of traditional narratives through an examination of a variety of specific tales.

Good stories are told over and over again. Each successive retelling transforms the narrative, the characters, details both minor and essential, and other elements of the story. This process of transformation is the subject of thestudies in this volume, which explore the nature of narrative reshaping in specific tales - Biblical,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859914771
• ISBN13: 9780859914772
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 368 Pages