A01=Linda M. Shires
A01=Steven Cohan
Author_Linda M. Shires
Author_Steven Cohan
bleak
Bleak House
Category=DSA
Category=DSB
Cheshire Cat
Da Game
Discursive Practice
Elizabeth's Entrance
elizabeths
Elizabeth’s Entrance
entrance
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_isMigrated=2
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eyre
heartbreak
Heartbreak Tango
Hermeneutic Code
house
jane
Jane's Subjectivity
Jane’s Subjectivity
Kernel Events
Lincoln's Inn Hall
Lincoln’s Inn Hall
Material Referent
Metaphorical Coherence
Michaelmas Term
Mrs Reed
organization
Proairetic Code
Reference Code
Reverse Shot Editing
Soft Black Drizzle
Story's Closure
Story’s Closure
Suturing Process
Symbolic Code
syntagmatic
Syntagmatic Organization
Syntagmatic Relation
tango
Textual Zone
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415013871
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 1988
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This timely study will interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students wanting to extend post-Saussurean theories to popular and canonical cultures, and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.
Steven Cohan and Linda M. Shires are both Associate Professors of English at Syracuse University.
