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- Title: Telling Tales out of School, A Research in Society Lecture Delivered at the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 231 KB
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MY TITLE, "Telling Tales Out of School," is hard won. In coming up with it, what I had to resist was the tyranny of the colon--its insistence, as soon as you are within the academic orbit, upon inserting itself, demanding qualification of titles, of terms. As a novelist, there are other linguistic devices that impress themselves upon one in much the same way. In this title, for instance, it is the cliche. But my job, as a novelist, is actually to work against cliche, so perhaps my title really should have been: "Telling Tales Out of School: Caught between a Colon and a Cliche."