taletelling

Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the taletelling siblings who meet all manner of spooks and demons.

The contest of taletelling in both stories emphasizes a central ambiguity regarding whether maternal or paternal principles structure origin myths.

They reinvoke traditional narratives of heteronormative courting and marriage in order to skew them, to locate new and disturbing meanings in them, and to reveal hidden stories lurking within the old stories and within taletelling itself.

In sum, depending on how one counts such things, there are in the 664 lines of the Squire's performance about 40 explicit references to tales, taletelling, and the narration of the tale itself - all serving to remind us of what could be told.

The author supports this historical taletelling with prodigious detail that frequently burdens the narrative instead of giving it authority.