Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Fight stories: what counts is the recounting
- 2 Storyability and tellability
- 3 Collaborative uses of literacy in the adolescent community
- 4 Retellings
- 5 Varieties of contextuality
- 6 Familiarity and distance: toward a theory of oral and written personal narration
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Fight stories: what counts is the recounting
- 2 Storyability and tellability
- 3 Collaborative uses of literacy in the adolescent community
- 4 Retellings
- 5 Varieties of contextuality
- 6 Familiarity and distance: toward a theory of oral and written personal narration
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Storytelling RightsThe Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986