The Language of Life and Death: The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative

Abstract

1. Introduction to the language of life and death 2. Narrative analysis 3. The escalation of violence 4. Confrontations with death 5. Premonitions and communication with the dead 6. Margie Knott: her confrontation with the neighbors 7. Gloria Stein: 'They stoned the house' 8. Rose Norman: the death of her younger sister 9. Mary Costa: the death of her youngest daughter 10. Cache County 11. The vernacular origin of epic style 12. Historians' use of narrative 13. Thomas Babington Macaulay: the death of Monmouth 14. S. T. Bindoff: the death of Elizabeth 15. 2 Samuel: the death of Absalom 16. The narrative view of death and life.

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