Telling the American Story

A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling

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Telling the American Story

A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling

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This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source of cultural data and an illustration of how to do a rhetorically close analysis of a story text. A theory of narrative structure is presented which leads to a conversationally based definition of what can properly be called a story.

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Published 01 Jan 1985
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 172
ISBN 9780893910419
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Language and Being
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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