The Narrative Construction of Reality

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Bruner, Jerome. “The Narrative Construction of Reality”. Critical Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1086/448619.
Bruner, J. (1991). The Narrative Construction of Reality. Critical Inquiry, 18(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1086/448619
Bruner J. The Narrative Construction of Reality. Critical Inquiry. 1991;18(1):1-21.
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