Telling Stories

  • Telling Stories: A laugh-out-loud literary tour de force
    By Geoff Palmer

    He was just fooling around, showing off to the boys. I mean, he shouldn't have done nothing, but if she hadn't pulled the drawer open it wouldn't have happened ...' 'So you're suggesting it was an accident?' 'Er ... yeah.

  • Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life
    By Lee Martin

    Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and memoirs.

  • Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life
    By Lee Martin

    ... saying. “Hold still. I want to get the right angle for this shot.” We get a great laugh out of this story, but I know the pain behind the humor. My cousin doesn't acknowledge it when she tells the story, but I can feel it in the facts ...

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

    This timely study will interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students wanting to extend post-Saussurean theories to poopular and canonical cultures, and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.

  • Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
    By Barend ter Haar

    This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts.

  • Telling Stories
    By Tim Burgess

    Here are the highs, the lows, the joys, the agonies, and the stories of what it's like to be in a rock band, as told by front man and survivor, Tim Burgess. This edition contains a whole new chapter that takes the story up to 2013.

  • Telling Stories: Perspectives on Longitudinal Writing Research
    By Jenn Fishman, Amy C. Kimme Hea

    ... Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs, ed. Todd Ruecker, Dawn Shepherd, Heidi Estrem, and Beth Brunk Chavez, 74–92. Logan: Utah State University Press. Hassel, Holly, and Joanne Baird Giordano. 2009. “Transfer Institutions ...

  • Telling Stories: Countering Narrative in Art, Theory and Film
    By Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley

    ... 3, 80, 88, 100-4, 110-11, 116-17, 124, 126, 135-6, 138, 141, 163, 1678, 186, 208, 210, 215-16, 224, 230, 236-8, 244-7, 253, 257-60, 262-3 Steiner, George, 188 Stengers, Isabella, 39 story, 2-3, 15, 50, 67, 71-2, 88-9, 91-2, 100 ...

  • Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers
    By Joyce Carol Oates

    Here are classics and relative unknowns, short vignettes and long genre fiction, tragic tales and humorous character sketches. Oates chose pieces that will inspire beginning and experienced writers alike.