Steedman, Carolyn (1988) Horsemen. London Review of Books, Vol.10 (No.3). pp. 20-22. ISSN 0260-9592

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Abstract

There is the idea of the story-taker, the necessary collaborator in the act of telling, the one who listens, shapes the narrative by assuming that there is something there to be told, who takes the story, not as appropriation, but as part of a deal, so that the outcome – an entity, a story – might be placed there, in the space between the listener and the teller. The presence of the story-taker wards off the question ‘So what?’ According to William Labov, a story-taker from a tradition quite different from the one George Ewart Evans represents, a sociolinguist rather than a folklorist, that is the response that every good narrator is continually evading: ‘when the narrative is over, it should be unthinkable for a bystander to say “so what?” ’

Item Type:	Book Review
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GR Folklore
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Oral history, Storytelling, Storytellers
Journal or Publication Title:	London Review of Books
Publisher:	L R B Ltd.
ISSN:	0260-9592
Book Title:	Spoken History
Date:	4 February 1988
Volume:	Vol.10
Number:	No.3
Page Range:	pp. 20-22
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Description:	Review of: Evans, G. E. (1987). Spoken history. London: Faber.
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/37903

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