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" Our fathers have told us": Introduction to the analysis of Hebrew narratives. Roma: Editrice Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1990.

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Repa, Peter. A footnote to my epitaph: The story of Lieutenant Repa as told. Singleton: D. Mason-Jones, 1993.

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Blacksnake. Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

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1803-1861, Williams Benjamin, and Abler Thomas S. 1941-, eds. Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

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Mock, Alfred. Bail out: Alfred Mock's World War II story as told to Christopher P. Gregoire. Alden, NY (13333 Park St., Alden 14004): C.P. Gregoire, 1987.

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Erb, Leonard. Great pops: Memoirs & sea stories : the memoirs of Leonard Erb as told to Diane Kanner. [United States?: s.n.], 2004.

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Coffin, Charles Carleton. Eyewitness to Gettysburg: The story of Gettysburg as told by the leading correspondent of his day. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1997.

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Coffin, Charles Carleton. Eyewitness to Gettysburg: The story of Gettysburg as told by the leading correspondent of his day. Thorndike, Me: G.K. Hall, 2000.

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Glenton, George. No safe haven: Told for the first time - an epic story of endurance by the Allied Merchant Fleet in the Mediterranean - from the Barbary Coast to Bari, 1942 to 1944. Ringwood: Navigator Books, 1995.

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Glenton, George. No safe haven: Told for the first time - an epic story of endurance by the allied merchant fleet in the Mediterranean - from the Barbary Coast to Bari - 1942 to 1944. Ringwood, Hampshire: Navigator Books, 1995.

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L, Lucas Charles, ed. The Lord is my shepherd and he knows I'm gay: The autobiography of the Reverend Troy D. Perry, as told to Charles L. Lucas. Austin, Tex: Liberty Press, 1987.

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Midnight of the soul: The personal World War II story of an infantry platoon leader told in compelling and bloody detail, from Normandy to the Rhineland, 1944-1945. Omaha, Neb: PRA, 1998.

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Wren, L. Peter. World War II revisited: A collection of stories told by those who served in the North Atlantic, Casablanca, and Normandy, as well as those who served from Singapore to the surrender in Tokyo Bay and for a short period after. [Bloomington, Ind.?]: Xlibris, 2009.

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Willey, Robert. The Iron 44th: The story of Company H of the 44th Indiana Volunteer Infantry as told by the men of this company in letters sent home and to the local newspapers. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011.

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Hickey, Lawrence J. Sun setters of the Southwest Pacific area: From Australia to Japan, an illustrated history of the 38th Bombardment Group (m) 5th Air Force World War II-1941-1946 as told and photographed by the men who were there. Boulder, Colorado: International Historical Research Associates, 2011.

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Skotnes, Pippa. Heaven's things: A story of the /Xam : an extract from the story of the Day-Heart Star, told to Lucy Lloyd in 1873 by //Kabbo and recorded in her notebooks, including extracts from other /Xam narratives, photographs and drawings and text and images reproduced from water-colours. Cape Town: LLAREC, 1999.

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Hilaire, Belloc. Matilda, who told lies, and was burned to death. New York: Knopf, 1992.

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Hilaire, Belloc. Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death. London: Red Fox, 1992.

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Hilaire, Belloc. Matilda, who told lies, and was burned to death. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.

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Hunt, Rhodes Elisha. All for the Union: A history of the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Great Rebellion as told by the diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted as a private in '61 and rose to the command of his regiment. Lincoln, RI: A. Mowbray, 1985.

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Ryley, J. Horton. Ralph Fitch, England's pioneer to India and Burma: His companions and contemporaries, with his remarkable narrative told in his own words. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1998.

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Crossing the plains in 1852: Narrative of a trip from Iowa to "The Land of Gold," as told in letters written during the journey. Fairfield, Wash: Ye Galleon Press, 1988.

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Emison, Patricia. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463724036.

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Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas – not least the idea of the power of visual art – across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of film, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, as partly reprising the introduction of mass media in the Renaissance, allowing for innovation that reflected an art free of the control of a patron though required to attract a broad public. Rivalry between word and image, between the demands of narrative and those of visual composition, spurred new ways of addressing the compelling nature of the visual. The twentieth century also saw the development of the discipline of art history; transfusions between cinematic practice and art historical postulates are part of the story told here.
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Ska, Jean Louis. Our Fathers Have Told Us: Introduction to the Analysis of Hebrew Narratives. Biblical Institute Press, 2002.

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Voices of Rwanda: Stories that Need to be Told ... Great Despair to Great Hope. Camerapix Publishers International, 2003.

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(Contributor), Glen Dewerff, and Alta Adkins (Illustrator), eds. I'm No Hero: A POW Story as Told to Glen DeWerff. Executive Books, 1995.

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Ska, Jean Louis. Our Fathers Have Told Us: Introduction to the Analysis of Hebrew Narratives (Subsidia Biblica, 13). Biblical Institute Press, 2001.

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Sammons, Benjamin. Narratives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614843.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses inset narratives and indirect narratives, with particular attention to their use in the construction of poems and the interconnections of poems to a larger mythological context. The Achaeans’ departure from Troy and the revenge of Athena against Oilean Ajax seem to have been prospectively narrated in the Ilioupersis in a way that causes confusion in Proclus’s summary. Similarly, much Trojan War mythology preceding the judgment of Paris was probably indirectly narrated in the Cypria, as is the case in the famous fragment concerning Helen’s birth. Two major passages of the Nostoi were most likely also narrated indirectly. Under the heading of paradigmatic tales (stories told by characters to one another for rhetorical purposes) our evidence is unfortunately meager, but the one example from the Cypria recorded by Proclus reveals a degree of sophistication equal to the most elaborate Homeric examples.
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The Story of 'Hernan der Norweger' Auschwitz Prisoner #79235: As told by Herman Sachnowitz to Arnold Jacoby. University Press of America, 2002.

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1920-, Trelawny, ed. Falmouth's wartime memories: A series of personal recollections as told to Trelawny and published to commemorate the fifieth anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Falmouth: Arwenack Press, 1994.

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Smith, Jason W. To Master the Boundless Sea. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640440.001.0001.

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As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like “sea power” derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy’s scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart’s soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.
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Alden, Maureen. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199291069.003.0001.

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The progress of the main narrative of the Odyssey is frequently suspended by the para-narratives told by the poet and his characters. These can take the form of paradigms providing a model of action for imitation or avoidance by a character. They can also guide interpretation of the main narrative by exploring variations on its basic story shape. A veiled hint may be conveyed through an αἶνος‎ purportedly based on personal experience. Previous work on narratives in the Odyssey, including narratology and narrative strategy, is briefly surveyed. The Homeric poems were showcased in the Athenian festival of the Panathenaea, and religious practice becomes a further source of para-narrative as the Athenian rituals of the Plynteria and Arrephoria are evoked by Penelope’s actions and stories as the poem draws to its end. Athenian control of the pan-Ionian festival in Delos may explain the Apollo paradigm used of Odysseus.
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Irizarry, Ylce. Neocolonialism’s Bounty. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039911.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter provides a background of Chicana/o and Latina/o literature. Chicana/o and Latina/o literature particularly demonstrate the increasing focus on empowerment—economic, political, and sexual—within Chicana/o and Latina/o America, not within Anglo-America. As such, the concept of the narratives developing in Chicana/o and Latina/o literature reflects an ongoing negotiation of form and meaning. That the narratives are told with varying elements, techniques, and genres should indicate their narrative dynamism, not a mutual inclusivity to either historical or mimetic representation. Indeed, the later novels of successful multiethnic authors explore larger cultural discourses, transnational migrations, and shifting literary aesthetics. This book then outlines specific narratives recurrent in Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: As Told to Olive Gilbert. Classic Americana Publishing, Inc., 2000.

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Saunders, Jennifer B. Imagining Religious Communities. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190941222.001.0001.

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Based on ethnographic research with a transnational Hindu family and its social networks, this book examines the ways that middle-class Hindu communities are engaged actively in creating and maintaining their communities. Imagination as a social practice has been a crucial component of defining a transnational life in the moments between actual contact across borders, and the narratives community members tell are key components of communicating these social imaginaries. Narrative performances shape participants’ social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amid increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include both epic narratives, such as excerpts from the Rāmāyaṇ, and personal narratives with dharmic implications. The book argues that this Hindu community’s religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives. The analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways that performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities.
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Glazzard, Andrew. The Case of Sherlock Holmes. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474431293.001.0001.

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The Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes saga. This engaging study uses a scholarly approach, combining close reading with historicism, to read the stories afresh, sceptically probing Dr Watson’s narratives and Holmes’s often barely credible solutions. Drawing on Victorian and Edwardian history, Conan Doyle’s life and works, and Doyle’s literary sources, the book offers new insights into the Holmes stories and reveals what they say about money, class, family, sex, race, war and secrecy.
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Friedenthal, Andrew J. Retcon Game. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496811325.001.0001.

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This book argues that the narrative/world-building technique known as retroactive continuity, often overlooked by literary scholars and media historians alike, has become a naturalized and ubiquitous part of popular culture. A careful look at the history of retroactive continuity–or retconning– reveals how its growing acceptance as a part of popular narratives has led to a complex, complicated understanding of the ways in which history and story can interact, ultimately creating a cultural atmosphere that is increasingly accepting of revisionist historical narratives. This can be seen most potently in the way that the editable hyperlink, rather than the stable footnote, has become the de facto source of information in America today. The groundwork for this major cultural shift has been laid for decades via our modes of entertainment. To embrace the concept of retroactive continuity in fictional media means accepting that the past, itself, is not a stable element, but rather something that is constantly in contentious flux. Thus retconning, on the whole, has a positive impact on society, fostering a sense of history itself as a constructed narrative and engendering an acceptance of how historical narratives can and should be recast to allow for a broader field of stories to be told in the present.
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Pioske, Daniel. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649852.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 concludes this investigation by returning to the question of epistemology. What comes to light through the previous studies, it is argued, is that the stories told by the biblical scribes were rooted in not one type of memory but multiple instantiations of it that would have often worked simultaneously to shape the material transmitted to them over time. The conclusions reached through this investigation would thus urge caution when likening biblical storytelling with a form of history, or at least an understanding of history that has been practiced and developed during the modern period. What these considerations also indicate is that drawing on the referential claims of biblical narrative for historical reconstructive pursuits requires some sensitivity toward these ancient narratives’ specific epistemic underpinnings.
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Wright, Stephen. Tales Jesus Told: An Introduction to the Narrative Parables of Jesus. Paternoster, 2003.

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Westbrook, Jennifer, Vanessa Chandler, Red Arrow Media, and Daniel A. Sandler. Greatest Story Never Told: Returning to the Heart of Biblical Narrative. Red Arrow Media, 2019.

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Bentley, Michael. Theories of World History since the Enlightenment. Edited by Jerry H. Bentley. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235810.013.0002.

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Theorizing about world history often remains under the blanket of a seemingly empirical narrative and that the investigation of it implies the scanning of hundreds of such narratives. It follows that its story cannot be told in a short introduction to the subject as a continuous chronology. In order to illuminate at least some of its more important twists, this article presents a series of snapshots aimed at clarifying the half-dozen major moods and turns that have played an important part in transforming a subject which the eighteenth century invented into one that it would no longer recognize. The typology's various segments should be seen as progressive through time but overlapping in time rather than successive stages of an evolution. The discussion considers universal history, the Weltgeschichte, modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism.
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The Greatest Story Never Told: Returning To The Heart Of Biblical Narrative. Red Arrow Publishing, 2019.

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Herman, David. Boundary Conditions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850401.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 extends the ideas presented in the previous chapter by situating a whole range of self-narratives on a spectrum involving more or less fully imagined forms of relationality between humans and other animals. With chapter 1 having provided a detailed reading of two particular case studies, chapter 2 uses a variety of texts—including memoirs and works of nature writing; narratives told by therians, i.e., communities of persons who identify as nonhuman animals; modernist, postmodernist, and contemporary fictional narratives; and works of fantasy and science fiction intended for younger audiences—to investigate issues raised by narratives that stage acts of identification as well as outright transformation across the species boundary.
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Herman, David. Entangled Selves, Transhuman Families. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850401.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 continues to explore self-narratives in the broader context of creatural life by examining stories that ground affiliations between humans and animals in cross-species kinship networks. With a view to reframing the very idea of family as a transhuman concept, the chapter discusses two parents’ memoirs about their autistic children’s interactions with animals—Rupert Isaacson’s The Horse Boy (2009) and Nuala Gardner’s A Friend Like Henry (2007)—in a way that builds on and also contributes to work being done in the (critical) medical humanities. The chapter also analyzes accounts of pet keeping as well as narratives about human-animal relationships that were told in contexts of family therapy.
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Fivush, Robyn, Widaad Zaman, and Natalie Merrill. Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737865.003.0003.

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We examine the developing social functions of autobiographical memory across childhood from a sociocultural perspective. We focus on family storytelling, and argue that reminiscing facilitates social and emotional bonds among family members. We delineate both the process of reminiscing, sharing our past with others in conversation, and the content of reminiscing, reminiscing about people, and reflecting on the value of those relationships. Elaborated family reminiscing, both about shared experiences and intergenerational narratives told by the older generation to the younger generation, emerges from more secure early parent–child attachment relationships, and facilitates the maintenance of family bonds through adolescence. Intriguingly, females may use autobiographical narratives to create and maintain socioemotional bonds with others to a greater extent than do males.
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Bhatia, Sunil. Decolonizing Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199964727.001.0001.

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Decolonizing Psychology sheds light on the universalizing power and the colonizing dimensions of Euro-American psychology. The book integrates insights from postcolonial, narrative, and cultural psychology to ask how Euro-American scientific psychology becomes the standard-bearer of psychology throughout the world, whose stories get told, what knowledge is considered as legitimate, and whose lives are considered central to the future of psychology. Urban Indian youth represent one of the largest segments of the youth population across the world and yet remain so utterly invisible in the discipline of psychology. By using ethnographic and interview methods, this book draws a nuanced narrative portrait of how urban youth in Pune, India, who belong to the transnational elite, middle and working classes, reimagine their identities within the new structural and neoliberal cultural contexts of globalization and neoliberalization. The book examines how particular class identities shape youth narratives about globalization and “Indianness” generally, as well as specific stories about self and identity, social inequality, dignity, poverty, family, relationships, work, marriage, and practices of consumption. The book articulates an alternative vision of psychology in which questions of social justice and equality are seen as central to its mission, and it is argued that a psychology is needed that urgently and meaningfully speaks to the lives of the majority of the world’s population.
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Pioske, Daniel. Memory in a Time of Prose. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649852.001.0001.

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Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own? To address this question, the following study focuses on matters pertaining to epistemology, or the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a past that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. The investigation that unfolds with these interests in mind consists of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175–830 BCE) with a wider constellation of archaeological and historical evidence unearthed from the era in which these stories are set. What this approach affords is the opportunity to examine the relationship between the past disclosed through these historical traces and that past represented within the biblical narrative, thus bringing to light meaningful details concerning the information drawn on by Hebrew scribes for the prose narratives they created. The results of this comparative endeavor are insights into an ancient world of oral, living speech that informed biblical storytelling, where knowledge about the past was elicited more through memory and word of mouth than through a corpus of older narrative documents. For those Hebrew scribes who first set down these stories in prose writing, the means for knowing a past and the significance attached to it were, in short, wed foremost to the faculty of remembrance.
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Chenet, François. The Nature of Idealism in the Mokṣopāyaśāstra/Yogavāsiṣṭha. Edited by Jonardon Ganeri. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314621.013.43.

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The Mokṣopāyaśāstra, “The treatise expounding the means to liberation,” which later became more commonly known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha-mahā-rāmāyaṇa, “The great tale of Rāma as told by the sage Vasiṣṭha in order to expound his yoga philosophy,” or popularly simply as the Yogavāsiṣṭha, is a fascinating and original text in Indian philosophy. The Yogavāsiṣṭha, a “philosophical didactic Rāmāyaṇa,” advocates an uncompromising type of Idealism according to which the world emerges only upon perception, or, in short, that the whole world is in the mind only, that is to say, all contents of the world are psychical in character. The Yogavāsiṣṭha proposes a fine synthesis of Subjective Idealism—a blending of the “Emergence through Perception” (dṛṣṭi-sṛṣṭi) view and “Imaginism” (kalpanā-vāda)—with Monistic Idealism. The text appeals to narratives and fabulous stories as a means to elucidate deep philosophical truths.
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Horigan, Kate Parker. Consuming Katrina. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817884.001.0001.

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When survivors are seen as agents in their own stories, they will be seen as agents in their own recovery. A better grasp on the processes of narration and memory is critical for improved disaster response because stories that are widely shared about disaster determine how communities recover. This book shows how the public understands and remembers large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina, discussing unique contexts in which personal narratives about the storm are shared: interviews with survivors, Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun, Josh Neufeld’s A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Trouble the Water, and public commemoration during the storm’s 10th anniversary in New Orleans. In each case, survivors initially present themselves in specific ways, counteracting negative stereotypes that characterize their communities. However, when adapted for public presentation, their stories get reduced back to stereotypes. As a result, people affected by Katrina continue to be seen in limited terms, as either undeserving of or incapable of managing recovery. This project is rooted in the author’s own experiences living in New Orleans before and after Katrina. But this is also a case study illustrating an ongoing problem and an innovative solution: survivors’ stories should be shared in a way that includes their own engagement with the processes of narrative production, circulation, and reception. In other words, we should know—when we hear the dramatic tale of disaster victims—what they think about how their story is being told to us.
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Hurwitz, Brian, and Victoria Bates. The Roots and Ramifications of Narrative in Modern Medicine. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0032.

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Narrative became a concept of great versatility and fluidity in the second half of the twentieth century, configuring multi-dimensional understandings and meanings in healthcare. The literary and social theorist Martin Kreiswirth speaks of ‘a massive and unprecedented eruption of interest in narrative and in theorizing about narrative’ in the period, which resulted in stories and fragments of stories gaining significant conceptual traction in many discourses and practices. Not until narrative began to be credited with such multi-disciplinary capacities were claims for a pluripotential role in medicine explicitly formulated. Yet in attempting to respond to human needs incarnated in language, narrativity and medicine have long been co-implicated. If ‘the chief characteristic of human life is that it is always full of events which ultimately can be told as a story,’ as Hannah Arendt argued, narrativity is a precondition of epitomising and reflecting on illness.6
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