The Stories We Are

The Stories We Are
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9781442626386
ISBN-13 : 1442626380
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Stories We Are by : William Lowell Randall

William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling styles through which people compose their lives. In doing so, he draws on a variety of fields, including psychology, psychotherapy, theology, philosophy, feminist theory, and literary theory.

We Are the Stories We Tell

We Are the Stories We Tell
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Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 0679728813
ISBN-13 : 9780679728818
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis We Are the Stories We Tell by : Wendy Martin

A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.

Stories We Tell Ourselves

Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Publisher : Canongate Books
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781786899941
ISBN-13 : 1786899949
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Stories We Tell Ourselves by : Richard Holloway

Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come from, and the stories we tell to get through this muddling experience of life. Thought-provoking, revelatory, compassionate and playful, Stories We Tell Ourselves is a personal reckoning with life’s mysteries by one of the most important and beloved thinkers of our time.

The Truth about Stories

The Truth about Stories
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Publisher : House of Anansi
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9780887846960
ISBN-13 : 0887846963
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Truth about Stories by : Thomas King

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

The Stories We Share

The Stories We Share
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Publisher : ALA Editions
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0838916511
ISBN-13 : 9780838916513
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Stories We Share by : Ladislava N. Khailova

The first of its kind, this guide spotlights dozens of award-winning titles that primarily feature a first- or second-generation immigrant child or teen as a narrator or main character.

The Stories We Tell

The Stories We Tell
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 259
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466835542
ISBN-13 : 1466835540
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Stories We Tell by : Patti Callahan Henry

Bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry is back with a powerful novel about the stories we tell and the people we trust. Eve and Cooper Morrison are Savannah's power couple. They're on every artistic board and deeply involved in the community. She owns and operates a letterpress studio specializing in the handmade; he runs a digital magazine featuring all things southern gentlemen. The perfect juxtaposition of the old and the new, Eve and Cooper are the beautiful people. The lucky ones. And they have the wealth and name that comes from being part of an old Georgia family. But things may not be as good as they seem. Eve's sister, Willa, is staying with the family until she gets "back on her feet." Their daughter, Gwen, is all adolescent rebellion. And Cooper thinks Eve works too much. Still, the Morrison marriage is strong. After twenty-one years together, Eve and Cooper know each other. They count on each other. They know what to expect. But when Cooper and Willa are involved in a car accident, the questions surrounding the event bring the family close to breaking point. Sifting between the stories—what Cooper says, what Willa remembers, what the evidence indicates—Eve has to find out what really happened. And what she's going to do about it. A riveting story about the power of truth, The Stories we Tell will open your eyes and rearrange your heart.

The Stories We Tell

The Stories We Tell
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Publisher : Crossway
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781433537110
ISBN-13 : 1433537117
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Stories We Tell by : Mike Cosper

The average American watches 5 hours of TV every day. Collectively, we spend roughly $30 billion on movies each year. Simply put, we're entertainment junkies. But can we learn something from our insatiable addiction to stories? Mike Cosper thinks so. From horror flicks to rom-coms, the tales we tell and the myths we weave inevitably echo the narrative underlying all of history: the story of humanity's tragic sin and God's triumphant salvation. This entertaining book connects the dots between the stories we tell and the one, great Story—helping us better understand the longings of the human heart and thoughtfully engage with the movies and TV shows that capture our imaginations.

Stories We've Heard, Stories We've Told

Stories We've Heard, Stories We've Told
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780199328253
ISBN-13 : 0199328250
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Stories We've Heard, Stories We've Told by : Jeffrey A. Kottler

If you ask someone the question, "Tell me a story that changed your life," there will almost certainly be a thoughtful pause before a huge grin emerges. Everyone's life has been guided and impacted by stories, beginning with the earliest fables and nursery rhymes our parents used to instill moral values to the last time you wanted to illustrate a point in a meeting or get a laugh out of a friend over dinner. Storytelling is a uniquely human activity, among our first and most enduring forms of communication. This is a book about the meaning of stories in people's lives, especially those that have produced enduring changes in their values, behavior, lifestyle, and worldview. Carefully documented and supported by research from the social sciences, as well as from neurobiology, the humanities, media studies, and arts, Jeffrey Kottler will explore how and why stories are so powerfully influential in people's lives, especially those that lead to major life transformations.

Stories We Tell Ourselves

Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 9781609381721
ISBN-13 : 1609381726
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Stories We Tell Ourselves by : Michelle Herman

The two thought-provoking, extended essays that make up Stories We Tell Ourselves draw from the author’s richly diverse experiences and history, taking the reader on a deeply pleasurable walk to several unexpectedly profound destinations. A steady accumulation of fascinating science, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural history—ranging as far and wide as neuro-ophthalmology, ancient dream interpretation, and the essential differences between Jung and Freud—is smoothly intermixed with vivid anecdotes, entertaining digressions, and a disarming willingness to risk everything in the course of a revealing personal narrative. “Dream Life” plumbs the depth of dreams—conceptually, biologically, and as the nursery of our most meaningful metaphors—as it considers dreams and dreaming every whichway: from the haruspicy of the Roman Empire to contemporary sleep and dream science, from the way birds dream to the way babies do, from our longing to tell them to the reasons we wish other people wouldn’t. “Seeing Things” recounts a journey of mother and daughter—a Holmes-and-Watson pair intrepidly working their way through the mysteries of a disorder known as Alice in Wonderland Syndrome—even as it restlessly detours into the world beyond the looking glass of the unconscious itself. In essays that constantly offer layers of surprises and ever-deeper insights, the author turns a powerful lens on the relationships that make up a family, on expertise and unsatisfying diagnoses, on science and art and the pleasures of contemplation and inquiry—and on our fears, regrets, hopes, and (of course) dreams.

The Stories We Live by

The Stories We Live by
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Publisher : Guilford Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 1572301880
ISBN-13 : 9781572301887
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Stories We Live by by : Dan P. McAdams

This book should be value for all those who are interested in enhancing their self-understanding. It should also serve as useful classroom text for undergraduates and advanced students in personality and social psychology, counselling and psychotherapy.