Author | : Livia Polanyi |
File Size | : 43,7 Mb |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 02 June 1985 |
ISBN | : IND:39000005551945 |
Pages | : 180 pages |
Telling the American Story by Livia Polanyi Book PDF Summary
This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source of cultural data and an illustration of how to do a rhetorically close analysis of a story text. A theory of narrative structure is presented which leads to a conversationally based definition of what can properly be called a story.