Imagining another world : the storyteller in Mahābhārata and midnight’s children

Imagining another world : the storyteller in Mahābhārata and midnight’s children

This dissertation sets out to showcase how traditional storytelling is intricately unique towards the society and cannot be replaced even with the visual spectacle and engagement that technology offers. Through analysing the Mahābhārata with the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s C...

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Main Author: Chua, Donna
Other Authors: Shirley Chew
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70302
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-703022019-12-10T10:49:37Z Imagining another world : the storyteller in Mahābhārata and midnight’s children Chua, Donna Shirley Chew School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities This dissertation sets out to showcase how traditional storytelling is intricately unique towards the society and cannot be replaced even with the visual spectacle and engagement that technology offers. Through analysing the Mahābhārata with the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children, this dissertation will showcase that the traditional storyteller better portrays human constructs as they continually adapt stories. On the other hand, contemporary film and technology diminishes the experience even when adapting the very stories that storytellers spur. Bachelor of Arts 2017-04-19T02:34:25Z 2017-04-19T02:34:25Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70302 en 33 p. application/pdf
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Imagining another world : the storyteller in Mahābhārata and midnight’s children
description This dissertation sets out to showcase how traditional storytelling is intricately unique towards the society and cannot be replaced even with the visual spectacle and engagement that technology offers. Through analysing the Mahābhārata with the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children, this dissertation will showcase that the traditional storyteller better portrays human constructs as they continually adapt stories. On the other hand, contemporary film and technology diminishes the experience even when adapting the very stories that storytellers spur.
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