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The story is true : the art and meaning of telling stories / Bruce Jackson.
LIBRA PN212 .J33 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Storytelling.
- Tales--United States.
- Tales.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 244 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- I: Personal stories
- Telling stories
- The fate of stories
- The true story of why Stephen Spender quit the Spanish Civil War
- The stories people tell
- Acting in the passive, or, somebody got killed but nobly killed anybody
- The story of Chuck
- Commanding the story
- II: Public stories
- Stories that don't make sense
- The real O. J. story
- Bob Dylan and the legend of Newport 1965
- Silver bullets
- The deceptive anarchy of Let us now praise famous men
- Words to kill by
- III: The story is true
- The storyteller I looked for every time I looked for storytellers
- Farinata's silence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592136063
- 1592136060
- OCLC:
- 74460195
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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