by Sarah Yoon | May 12, 2015 | Storytelling Articles
Guest Post by Timothy E.G. Bartel In the last post, we saw that poetry, which had ruled for thousands of years as the go-to method for telling stories, was pushed aside by the novel in the last two hundred years. Today poetry can seem like an afterthought, exiled to...
by Sarah Yoon | May 5, 2015 | Storytelling Articles
Guest post by Timothy E.G. Bartel In the last post, we saw that Aristotle, with his focus on plot essentials and picking the best meter for each type of story, had hit upon surprisingly popular and long-lasting set of rules for poetic storytelling. It would take a...
by Sarah Yoon | Apr 28, 2015 | Storytelling Articles
Guest post by Timothy E.G. Bartel The Ancient world must have been a great place to be a storyteller. The mythic quests of heroes, the horror of monstrous beasts, the dark schemes of gods—these were the bread and butter of the ancient storyteller. And from the Odyssey...