Jackson The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Revised and Expanded
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9038-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I: PERSONAL STORIES

1. Telling Stories

2. The Fate of Stories

3. The True Story of Why Stephen Spender Quit the Spanish Civil War

4. The Doctor’s Story

5. The Stories People Tell

6. Acting in the Passive; or, Somebody Got Killed but Nobody Killed Anybody

7. The Story of Chuck

8. Storytellers’ Storytellers

9. The Deceptive Anarchy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

PART II: PUBLIC STORIES

10. Just the Facts

11. Stories That Don’t Make Sense

12. Murder, Movies, Trials, and Kinds of Talk

13. The Real O.J. Story

14. Words to Kill By

15. Bob Dylan and the Legend of Newport 1965

PART III: SEEING IN THE DARK

16. Silver Bullets

17. Loose Ends in Night Moves

18. Making War, Making Movies: The Fog of War

19. Filming Gatsby

20. Fellini’s Memory: Amarcord

PART IV: THE STORY IS TRUE

21. The Storyteller I Looked for Every Time I Looked for Storytellers

22. Farinata’s Silence

Coda: Donald Trump’s Big Lie

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the coauthor (with Diane Christian) of Voices from Death Row, Second Edition and author of Ways of the Hand: A Photographer's Memoir and American Chartres: Buffalo's Waterfront Grain Elevators, all published by SUNY Press.