This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns. SHELLEY TROWER Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. INDICE: Oral Tradition, Literature, and Locality - Romanticizing the West Country: or, Hell-Hounds in Hard Cover and Pixies in Print; 'T.Fulford ' - 'The romance of real life': Polwhele's Representation of the Literary Culture andLanguage of Cornwall; 'D.Moore' - Printed Voices: Dialect and Diversity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; 'S.Edney' - Oral History and Local Environments - Regional Writing and Oral History, from China Clay to Eden; 'S.Trower ' -Wivenhoe Landscapes Remembered: From a Working River to Romanticized Nature; 'P.Thompson ' - The Ouse Project: A Case Study of Applied Oral History; 'A.Holmes' - Witnesses to a Changing Landscape: From the Circumpolar to Central London; 'L.McCartney' - Audience and New Technologies - Oral History as Site-Specific Practice: Locating the History of Performance Art in Wales; 'H.Roms'& 'R.Edwards' - The Historical Hearing Aid: Located Oral History from the Listener'sPerspective; 'T.Butler' - Mapping Memories of Displacement: Oral History, Memoryscapes, and Mobile Methodologies; 'S.High'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62369-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 03/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés