Narrativization of the News: An Introduction

Liebes, Tamar

doi:10.1075/jnlh.4.1-2.01nar

Article published In: Narrativization of the News
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 4:1/2] 1994
► pp. 1–8

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Narrativization of the News: An Introduction

Tamar Liebes | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Published online: 4 August 2015

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