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Author:
Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
Title:
The story is true : the art and meaning of telling stories / Bruce Jackson.
Publisher:
Temple University Press,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xii, 244 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Storytelling.
Tales--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 nobody 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.
ISBN:
1592136060 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781592136063 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2006035598
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)
PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)
OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)
GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

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