Coming to Narrative
Title | Coming to Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur P Bochner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1315432080 |
Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences—especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory—have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of inquiry. He outlines the theoretical contributions of such luminaries as Bateson, Laing, Goffman, Henry, Gergen, and Richardson in this transformation. Using diverse forms of narration, Bochner seamlessly layers theory and story, interweaving his professional and personal life with the social and historical contexts in which they developed.
Coming to Terms
Title | Coming to Terms PDF eBook |
Author | Seymour Benjamin Chatman |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780801497360 |
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940-1990
Title | The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940-1990 PDF eBook |
Author | Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 824 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521497329 |
Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.
Advances in Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry
Title | Advances in Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry PDF eBook |
Author | Tony E. Adams |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2021-04-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1000372839 |
Advances in Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry pays homage to two prominent scholars, Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, for their formative and formidable contributions to autoethnography, personal narrative, and alternative forms of scholarship. Their autoethnographic—and life—project gives us tools for understanding shared humanity and precious diversity; for striving to become ever-more empathic, loving, and ethical; and for living our best creative, relational, and public lives. The collection is organized into two sections: "Foundations" and "Futures." Contributors to "Foundations" explore Carolyn and Art’s scholarship and legacy and/or their singular presence in the author’s life. Contributors to "Futures" offer novel and innovative applications of autoethnographic and narrative inquiry. Throughout, contributors demonstrate how Bochner’s and Ellis’ work has created and shifted the terrain of autoethnographic and narrative research. This collection will be of interest to researchers familiar with Bochner’s and Ellis’ research. It also serves as a resource for graduate students, scholars, and professionals who have an interest in autoethnographic and narrative research. This collection can be used in upper-division undergraduate courses and graduate courses solely about autoethnography and narrative, and as a secondary text for courses about ethnography and qualitative research.
Coming Soon!!!
Title | Coming Soon!!! PDF eBook |
Author | John Barth |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780618257300 |
In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. In the heat of their rivalry, the writers navigate, and sometimes stumble over, the cultural fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentee, postmodernism and modernism.
Coming to Terms
Title | Coming to Terms PDF eBook |
Author | Seymour Benjamin Chatman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801424854 |
The Situation and the Story
Title | The Situation and the Story PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian Gornick |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2002-10-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1466819014 |
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.