The story is true
Subtitle: the art and meaning of telling stories
By: Bruce Jackson
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781592136063
Subjects: Storytelling; Erzähltechnik; Tales; Erzählen; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements --; title: Introduction -- -- pt. 1.; title: Personal stories -- -- 1.; title: Telling stories -- -- 2. The; title: fate of stories -- -- 3. The; title: true story of why Stephen Spender quit the Spanish Civil War -- -- 4. The; title: stories people tell -- -- 5.; title: Acting in the passive, or, somebody got killed but nobody killed anybody -- -- 6. The; title: story of Chuck -- -- 7.; title: Commanding the story -- -- pt. 2.; title: Public stories -- -- 8.; title: Stories that don't make sense -- -- 9. The; title: real O. J. story -- -- 10.; title: Bob Dylan and the legend of Newport 1965 -- -- 11.; title: Silver bullets -- -- 12. The; title: deceptive anarchy of Let us now praise famous men -- -- 13.; title: Words to kill by -- -- pt. 3. The; title: story is true -- -- 14. The; title: storyteller I looked for every time I looked for storytellers -- -- 15.; title: Farinata's silence --; title: Notes --; title: Index.