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The Story Is True, Second Edition: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

The Story Is True, Second Edition: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

Jackson, Bruce

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysGeneral ReferenceStorytelling

ISBN10: 1438490372
ISBN13: 9781438490373
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 1 2022
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.

In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives. Jackson writes about his family and friends, acquaintances, and experiences, focusing on more than a dozen personal stories. From oral histories to public stories-such as what happened when Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival-Jackson gets at how the truth is constantly shifting depending on the perspective, memory, and social meaning that is ascribed to various events-both real and imaginary. The book is ideal for students and writers of oral history and storytelling but goes beyond those topics to encompass how we interpret and understand the real-life stories that we encounter in our daily experience.

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