Narrative and genre
by Chamberlain, Mary Thompson, Paul
Narrative and Genre presents exciting new debates in an emerging field, where international academics from a plethora of disciplines examine the conventions and restrictions of language and genre and how they influence our communication.
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- Full title :Narrative and genre / edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson.
Summary
Narrative and Genre presents exciting new debates in an emerging field, where international academics from a plethora of disciplines examine the conventions and restrictions of language and genre and how they influence our communication.
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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 201 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0585447934, 9780585447933, 0203442334, 9780203442333, 1280057378, 9781280057373, 1134745044, 9781134745043, 1134745052, 9781134745050
- oclc:ocm52425217
- LC Classification:D16.14
- Dewey Decimal:920
Table of Contents
Introduction : genre and narrative in life stories / Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson -- Oral history as genre / Alessandro Portelli -- Silences : the case of a psychiatric hospital / Diana Gittens -- A Brazilian worker's autobiography in an unexpected form : interweaving the interview and the novel / José Sérgio Leite Lopes and Rosilene Alvim -- Family fables / Chris Mann -- Anecdote as narrative resource in working-class life stories : parody, dramatization and sequence / T.G. Ashplant -- My life as consumer : narratives from the world of goods / Orvar Löfgren -- Distant homes, our genre : recognizing Chinese lives as an anthropologist / Stephan Feuchtwang -- The oral history interview in a cross-cultural setting : an analysis of its linguistic, social and ideological structure / Yvette J. Kopijn -- In the archive, in the field : what kind of document is an 'oral history'? / Kathryn Marie Dudley -- Sharing and reshaping life stories : problems and potential in archiving narratives / Paul Thompson -- Raphael Samuel : an appreciation / Jerry White.
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