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1997: Story: From Fireplace to Cyberspace

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 39, 1997); Edited by Betsy Hearne, Janice M. Del Negro, Christine Jenkins, and Deborah Stevenson

Stories live everywhere, but they rarely stay in one place. Despite our attempts to classify, codify, and construe them, stories keep moving too mercurially to fit intellectual categories. Stories also shapechange. They shrink or expand depending on the listener, the medium, the time, the place, and the teller. So a storytelling conference becomes an organic experience and planning one is like lassoing an amoeba. What do you catch and how do you keep it? Or, less figuratively, what do you include and how do you preserve it? We decided on a program that incorporated both telling stories and telling about stories, both practical and theoretical approaches, both oral and literary forms, with some graphics thrown in for good measure. What's in this book is only partially what happened during the conference a little more, a little less. The papers are revised, the tellings only described.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• Introduction - Betsy Hearne
• Storytelling in the school library media center - Anne Shimojima
• Tangled in the web: Storytelling, communiction and controversy - Karen Morgan
• The storytelling festival as ritualization of the storytelling revival mythos - Joseph Daniel Sobol
• Midwife, witch, and woman-child: Metaphor for a matriarchal profession - Betsy Hearne
• Evaluating stories for diverse audiences - Malore I. Brown
• Book linking to story - Judith O'Malley
• Narrative in picture books, or, The paper that should have had slides - Deborah Stevenson
• Construction, illustration, and a plethora of pigs: Reflections on a lecture by Arthur Geisert - Deborah Stevenson
• The cycle of story: From fireplace to marketplace or, "The Kids Keep Tearing Their Jeans" - Christine Jenkins
• For story's sake: Reading as its own reward - Janice M. Del Negro
• Conclusion - Christine Jenkins
• Appendix A: Storytelling in the School Library Media Center: Bibliography and Resources - Anne Shimojima
• Appendix B: Evaluating sources for diverse audiences: Annotated bibliography of research tools - Malore I. Brown
  
• Appendix C: Allerton Park Institute 1997 Discography - Janice M. Del Negro
• Appendix D: Resources for storytellers: An annotated bibliography - Loretta Gaffney
  
• Appendix E: Storycrafting: Retelling Old Tales, a Bibliography - Janice M. Del Negro
  

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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