Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction by Linda M. Shires, Steven Cohan

Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction

Linda M. Shires, Steven Cohan

208 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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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 or a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings an...

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