WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

recounting
    n 1: an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own
         relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident
         eventually became unbearable" [syn: relation, telling,
         recounting]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "recounting":
   account, accounts, body count, capitulation, census, copy, count,
   critique, dwelling upon, elaboration, going over, head count,
   inventory, iteration, narration, narrative, nose count, practicing,
   reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount,
   recountal, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, relation,
   repertory, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, review,
   statement, summary, summation, summing, summing up, tale-telling,
   telling, yarn spinning