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Williams, Carol Traynor.

It's time for my story: soap opera sources, structure, and
response / Carol Traynor Williams.
p. cm.--(Media and society series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-275-94297-X (alk. paper)

1. Soap operas--History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series.

PN 1992.8.S4W55 1992

791.45′6--dc20 92-945

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Copyright © 1992 by Carol Traynor Williams

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may
be reproduced, by any process or technique, without
the express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-945
ISBN: 0-275-94297-X

First published in 1992

Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).

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Copyright Acknowledgments

The author and publishers are grateful for permission to quote from the following
sources.

Interviews by the author with William Asher; Suzanne Frentz; Roberta MacLellan;
Agnes Nixon; Marjorie Robinson, by permission of Joan R. Terry; and Sally Sussman.
An earlier verison of chapter 8 appeared as Carol Traynor Williams, "Towards a
Methodology for Soap Opera", in Staying Tuned: Contemporary Soap Opera Criticism,
ed. Suzanne Frentz ( Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press, 1992).

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