'Finalist' in the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & LinguisticsAwarded Honors at the Storytelling World Awards 2022Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination of how a diverse ecosystem of oral stories and the dynamics of storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of powerful vested interests. Detailed analysis of traditional, true-life and fictional stories shows how spoken narrative language can imbue landscapes, creatures and experiences with enchantment and mediate between the inner world of consciousness and outer world of ecology and community. A pioneering ecolinguistic and ecocritical study of oral storytelling in the modern world, Storytelling and Ecology offers insight into the ways that sharing stories in each other's embodied presence can open up spaces for transformation in our relationships with the ecological world around us.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Storytelling and Ecology: Reconnecting People and Nature through Oral Narrative2. Storytelling as a Means of Conversation about Ecology and Sustainability3. Time, Desire and Consequence in Ecological Stories4. Composting Snakes and Dragons: Ecological Enchantment of Local Landscapes5. The Listening Place: The Space of Transformative Stillness6. Supernatural Ecology and the Transcendence of Normative ExpectationBibliographyIndex