Telling Stories: Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative

by Michael Roemer

Overview

Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461644019
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/13/1995
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	386
File size:	773 KB

About the Author

Michael Roemer is professor of film and American studies at Yale University.

Editorial Reviews

. . . coherent and interesting, complex but accessible.

CHOICE

A fabulously well-informed look . . . of story-telling across the centuries from ancient drama to contemporary TV. . . . Provocative, fascinating and intellectually enriching.

RWB Lewis

. . . coherent and interesting, complex but accessible.

Choice

An extraordinary analysis, of our rock-bottom humanity, our effort to figure out who we are through narrative—a brilliant and knowing story, really, about who we are who tell and attend stories. The author walks comfortably, judiciously through the terrain of history, literature, photography, psychoanalytic psychology, and does so on our behalf through his clear, compelling voice.

Robert Coles