The Story Is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

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Notes Chapter 1: Telling Stories 1. 1978; Pinter also wrote the script for the 1983 film version, directed by David Hugh Jones. 2. 93(4):308. 3. There are important scholars who have adopted very different vocabularies for engaging some of the issues and behaviors I am addressing here: M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, trans. Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981; Mieke Bal, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, 2nd ed., Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997; Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse : An Essay in Method, trans. Jane E. Lewin, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980; Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse Revisited, trans. Jane E. Lewin, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988; and Wallace Martin, Recent Theories of Narrative, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1986. These vocabularies are useful for what they are doing, but I am doing something else. I am writing about narratives that exist in plain language, and I think to discuss them in plain language is both possible and useful. If you catch me in any jargon, send me an email at bjackson@buffalo.edu., and I will try to fix it in the second edition. 4. John Barth, On With the Story: Stories (New York: Back Bay Books, 1997), 30. 5. Primo Levi, The Monkey’s Wrench, trans. William Weaver (New York: Penguin Classics, 1987, 35. 235 6. In The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman with a commentary by Harold Bloom (Norwell, MA: Anchor, 1997), 259. 7. BuffaloFilmSeminars.com. Chapter 2: The Fate of Stories 1. Levi, op. cit., 35. 2. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, trans. William Weaver (San Diego and New York: Harvest Books, 1978), 133. 3. David Tereshchuk, ‘‘Lives: An Unreliable Witness.’’ New York Times Magazine , January 28, 2001, 66. 4. Quoted by Matthew L. Wald, ‘‘For Air Crash Detectives, Seeing Isn’t Believing,’’ The New York Times Week in Review, June 23, 2002. 5. The University at Buffalo had a few years before organized itself into seven faculties—Arts and Letters, Social Science and Administration, Engineering , Health Sciences, and so forth—each headed by a provost, who performed pretty much as deans do everywhere else. Over the next three years Warren became vice-president for academic affairs and then executive vice-president as well, a combination of functions that pretty much describes the role of provost in modern universities. So when Warren was provost of Social Sciences and Administration at Buffalo he was really a dean, but when he stopped being the provost he really became a provost though that title hadn’t yet come into currency. 6. Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, ed. T. W. Clark (New York: Hill and Wang), 1966, 71. 7. Calvino, op. cit., 80. Chapter 3: The True Story of Why Stephen Spender Quit the Spanish Civil War 1. Stephen Spender, World within World (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951), viii. Chapter 4: The Stories People Tell 1. Good Morning America, December 21, 2000. 2. Walter V. Robinson, ‘‘Professor’s Past in Doubt. Discrepancies Surface in Claim of Vietnam Duty,’’ Boston Globe, June 18, 2001. Chapter 7: Commanding the Story 1. Primo Levi, The Monkey’s Wrench, 34. 2. Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (New York: Vintage, 1989), 61. 236 Notes 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid., 64. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid., 65. 8. Calvino, op. cit., Chapter 8: Stories That Don’t Make Sense 1. Roald Hoffman, ‘‘Storied Theory,’’ American Scientist, 93(4)(July-August 2005), 308. 2. Albert Einstein, ‘‘Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtpunkt.’’ Annalen der Physik (series IV) 17:132–148. 3. Sam Schager, The Trial Lawyer’s Art (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1999, 11. Chapter 9: The Real O. J. Story 1. Quoted by C.A. Patrides, Milton and the Christian Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), 103–104. Chapter 10: Bob Dylan and the Legend of Newport 1965 1. Greil Marcus, Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (New York: Owl Books [Henry Holt &Co.], 1998, 12. ‘‘Axe’’ was then pseudo-hip for ‘‘guitar.’’ 2. Jorge Luis Borges, ‘‘Forms of a Legend,’’ in Other Inquisitions, 193–1952, trans. Ruth L. C. Sims (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), 149. Chapter 11: Silver Bullets 1. The New Republic article is by Barbara Reynolds; the Time article on Oliver North is by Richard Stengel. 2. Robert Warshow, ‘‘Movie Chronicle: The Westerner,’’ in...