Author : Bruce Jackson
Release : 2022-10-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded write by Bruce Jackson. This book was released on 2022-10-01. The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives. Jackson writes about his family and friends, acquaintances, and experiences, focusing on more than a dozen personal stories. From oral histories to public stories—such as what happened when Bob Dylan "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival—Jackson gets at how the "truth" is constantly shifting depending on the perspective, memory, and social meaning that is ascribed to various events—both real and imaginary. The book is ideal for students and writers of oral history and storytelling but goes beyond those topics to encompass how we interpret and understand the real-life "stories" that we encounter in our daily experience. This edition includes new sections on how stories are related to historical facts and new chapters on contemporary films (expanding the discussion of visual storytelling) and on conspiracy narratives and Trump's Big Lie. Fresh examples tie together new material with the existing stories.