This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introducti
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For students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies, Robert Doran (French and comparative literature, U. of Rochester) gath
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First Published in 2002. We are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the real