Telling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling

By ABC-CLIO Editors

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893910414
• ISBN13: 9780893910419
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher