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What is a story?
- Title
- What is a story? / Don Cupitt.
- Author
- Cupitt, Don.
- Publication
- London : SCM Press, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN3347 .C86 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 162 pages; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Words and Time. a. Words out of time. b. Words in time. c. Words and deeds. d. The point of stories. e. Story and the production of desire. f. Story and the production of reality. g. Good and bad stories. h. Stories and the production of time -- 2. The Power of Stories. a. Good and bad examples. b. Stories that have a bad name. c. Stories that satisfy. d. Stories that produce intelligence -- 3. Stories and the Self. a. The struggle into existence. b. Transformations. c. Inside and outside. d. Simulations, dissimulations. e. Feelings and meanings. f. Stories and explanations. g. Life stories -- 4. Histories and Myths. a. Truth as fiction. b. Moral fables. c. Master narratives. d. The perfect life. e. The talisman -- 5. Theological Stories. a. Ritual knowledge. b. From ritual to prose fiction. c. Christian epic theology. d. But who is the narrator? e. Fictional theology -- 6. Story Anti-story. a. Zen also refutes itself. b. Keeping going. c. The redundancy of experience. d. Make believe.
- ISBN
- 0334024196 :
- LCCN
- 91219649
- OCLC
- ocm26673324
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries