Fourth Day of Individual Presentations

***Friday mandatory attendance! (Talk to Dr. Sexson if you won't be there) We'll do a review and wrap up the semester.***

Snake Hair Kayla - what makes story/myths so important to us... now in secondary orality, and in primary orality

Lisa of the Little Legs - Ichi (sp) - last wild indian that came out of the woods in 1911 - lived an oral culture til his 40's where he spent time in San Francisco

Two-Tongued Charlie - How much orality is found within the bible, mostly old testament - Epic Lists and their power - Performance and Torah

Joan Gossimer von Goss - The Power of Words

Jana the Tamer of Horses - The Power of Names - Three aspects: Naming something gives power to the person giving the name, forced familiarity, junk mailing names and prizes; the power they give the thing that is named

Steve of the Rivers - The Raven, The Light, and My Failure as a Mythteller - He wrote a native-type story but found out there just was no magic there

Parker of the Outback - Film and the Oral Tradition of Storytelling - Films and Dream Logic and Movies as the next evolution of storytelling

Chris the Scribe - The Story Shower - My Father and why he's the greatest storyteller ("story shower") I have ever known

Charismatic Kari - The Power of Names - Religious Names and the Power they give the people in the bible

(*** I think that even calling something what we have told ourselves they are - like desk, table, tree - gives us power over them... imagine seeing that green, woody thing outside and not knowing what it was... we would have absolutely no power over it, and that's the point.***)

Kate of the Beautiful Eyes - Tristram Shandy vs. The Literate Tradition - couldn't convey what he wanted through print alone, so he used many oral aspects to get his point across

Summer Breeze - T.S. Elliot's "Four Quartets" and connections with poetry starting somewhere other than where Professor Sexson said they did! Ah! Blasphemy! What the shaman speaks is law ;)!