Telling Stories: Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative
- ISBN-10
- 0847680428
- ISBN-13
- 9780847680429
- Series
- Telling Stories
- Category
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Pages
- 499
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Michael Roemer
Description
Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings.
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