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Telling Stories

by Steven Cohan
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Overview

Argues that any story, whether a Bette Davis film or a Jane Austen novel, must be related to larger cultural networks. Calls for a critical practice that revises our conception of narrative through the fracturing of texts.

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Book Details

Published
October 20, 1988
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Inc.
ISBN
9780203136393

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