The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture - Softcover

Fulford, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076790656X ISBN 13: 9780767906562

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2001

Synopsis

A journalist looks at the art of storytelling in the modern era, highlights the central role stories have played in the history of civilization, including modern Western culture, and discusses the timeless elements of narrative and the links between storytelling and how we live and view reality. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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A lively, strikingly original look at the prevalence and endurance of stories in our lives and our culture.

When I hear a good story, I have an almost physical need to tell it. Of all the ways we communicate with one another the story has established itself as the most comfortable, the most versatile.

In The Triumph of Narrative, celebrated journalist and critic Robert Fulford explores narrative in all of its forms from conversation, gossip, and urban legends to journalism, literature, film and television. Fulford vividly illustrates how storytelling formed the core of civilized life, how stories shape us as much as we shape stories, and why the human appetite for narrative persists.

Pursuing his subject across a landscape that includes The Birth of a Nation, Chinatown, television news, Twain, Hemingway and Nabokov, sex scandals, and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fulford brilliantly elucidates the timeless elements of narrative and articulates the intimate connections between stories and how we live and view reality. During an era when mass media and mass leisure have enabled us to spend much more time absorbing stories than any of our ancestors could, The Triumph of Narrative is an incisive look at one of our most fundamental, irreplaceable needs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076790656X
• ISBN 13: 9780767906562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158