A Short Story About Long Stories

Riessman, Catherine Kohler

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.18ash

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
► pp. 155–158

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A Short Story About Long Stories

Catherine Kohler Riessman | Boston University

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.18ash

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