title: Into the Story: Language in Action Through Drama
author: Carole Miller
description: Carole Miller is associate professor in the Department of Curriculum &amp; Instruction, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria. Her primary area of research is the relationship of drama to learning across the curriculum. She is coauthor of Learning to Teach Drama (Heinemann, 2000). Juliana Saxton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre, University of Victoria. Coauthor of Teaching Drama: A Mind of Many Wonders and Asking Better Questions, she is a recipient of the University of Victoria Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award and of the AATE Campton Bell Lifetime Achievement Award.
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  “MILLER AT THE TOP OF HER FORM…
  
  Miller writes with spare, old-fashioned grace, her story luminous with the
  small details of everyday life. And if Cath’s journey is the vehicle for
  telling the story, it’s Georgia whose presence hovers over every moment—she’s
  as compelling a character as any Miller has yet created.… Miller is exploring,
  in this fine novel, the endless interplay of past, present, and future in
  human lives. Forget dainty domestic drama—this is meaty stuff.”
  
  —The Charlotte Observer
  
  “Sue Miller’s work belongs at the top of the novel of domestic realism, of the
  relations between men and women, of hungry generations treading one another
  down but taking some pleasure in the interplay. Her achievement is to have
  portrayed this in language that for all its incidental poetry makes us also
  feel that the poetry isn’t what matters, that her stories are told by
  employing, as Wordsworth put it, ‘Words/Which speak of nothing more than what
  we are.’ ”
  
  —The New York 