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Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction - Cohan, Steven, and Shires, Linda M.
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Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This timely study will interest ...

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Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction 2015, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138171213

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Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction 1988, Routledge, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780415013864

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Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction 1988, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415013871

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