The Recovery of Oral Storytelling Techniques in Tristram Shandy, Heart of Darkness, and Midnight's Children - Ana Cristina Baniceru

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The contemporary novel, with its renewed interest in simulated orality, has become the meeting point of two seemingly different types of discourse, written and oral. The present book examines oral storytelling techniques in the British novel, recovered through writing. One of the most practical ways to analyse the dynamics and tensions created between the two types of discourse is to focus on the relationship between storyteller and audience, and on how this relationship changes with the transformation of the former into the narrator and the latter into the narratee. What this book puts forwar