Richard Wells : a Newfoundland storyteller and aspects of his storytelling

• Main Author: Butt, William Clouston
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1986
• Subjects: Exploits Islands; Notre Dame Bay; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/5489/; https://research.library.mun.ca/5489/1/Butt_WilliamClouston.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/5489/3/Butt_WilliamClouston.pdf

This work is a biographical, contextual, performance and aesthetic-oriented examination of a Newfoundland storyteller’s art. As such, the focus of the work is on the narrator and the contexts, and to a lesser degree on the narratives themselves. It is the contention that the narrator who is the focu...