The storytelling that... «Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader»
innashpitzberg10 сентября 2012The storytelling that thrives for a long time in the milieu of work -- the rural, the maritime, and the urban -- is itself an artisan form of communication, as it were. It does not aim to convey the pure essence of the thing, like information or a report. It sinks the thing into the life of the storyteller, in order to bring it out of him again. Thus traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the handprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel.
(Walter Benjamin, "A Storyteller")
9 понравилось75