Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Valence of the Story / Carlo Comanducci and Alex Wilkinson -- The Nest of Meanings -- The Self Behind (His)Story: Reading the Narrator of Flaubert’s Parrot / Andrzej Księżopolski -- Blind: the Moving Image and the Movements of Imagination / Carlo Comanducci -- Narration as a Resurrection of the Dead: the Role of Storytelling in Banville’s Ghosts / Irena Księżopolska -- Correspondence and Response: Mythopoesis, Metafiction and the Utopian Impulse / Michael Heitkemper-Yates -- These Margins Which Are Not -- Female Literary Body as a Storyteller: on Two Stories Told by Tamora’s Body in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus / Ana Penjak -- Germaine de Staël and the Narrative(s) of Her Alter-Ego Corinne: the Example of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s Portrait / Anna Cabak Rédei -- Canadian Identity Construction through ‘Perfect’ English / Lena Shulyakovskaya -- Queer Storytellers: Desire and Narrative / Alex Wilkinson -- Virtual Intimacies – Digital Identities -- From Penning to Pinning: Performing ‘Unfinished Stories’ across Social Media Sites / Emily Keats and Michael Humphrey -- ‘The Circle Uncoiled, Unwound’: Following Memory’s Storyline with Mystory / Martha D. Rust and Suzanne England -- Interactive Documentary and Its Potential for Cultural Heritage Mediation / Nina Dvorko -- An Ethics of Telling -- The Survivor, the Psychologist, and the Story / Adrianne Aron -- Why We Need to Stop Talking about ‘Child Abuse’: How Pathologizing Discourse Enables Violence against Children / Julian Burton -- Telling Is Selling: Stories as Efficient Means to Advertise Luxury Products and Brands / Alexandra Ioana Stanciu and Barbara Malečkar -- Touching/Feeling and the Grain of the Voice -- Storyteller Theatre: Oral Literature Meets Performing Culture – a Middle Eastern Case / Agnieszka Ayşen Kaim -- Creating Fairy Tale / Deborah Eve Freedman -- Changing Scripts – Learning Life -- Reciprocal Narrative Interviewing / Laurinda Brown and Alf Coles -- ‘They Say I Am My Own Story. Then, How Can I Change the Plot?’: on How Stories Can Help Us Explore Our Destiny / Alessandra Cosso.

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