Narrative and Genre Contexts and Types of Communication
Auteur : Thompson Paul
Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also by art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also the more complex expectations of "genre," the forms expected within a given context and type of communication. This collection of essays by international academics draws on a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities to examine how far the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence what messages they can convey. After investigating the problem of genre definition, and tracing the evolution of genre as a concept, contributors explore such issues as: How far can we argue that what people narrate in their autobiographical stories is selected and shaped by the repertoire of genre available to them? To what extent is oral autobiography shaped by its social and cultural context? What is the relationship between autobiographical sources and the ethnographer? Narrative and Genre presents exciting new debates in an emerging field and will encourage international and interdisciplinary discussion. Its authors and contributors are scholars from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, literary analysis, psychology, psychoanalysis, social history, and sociology.
Date de parution : 05-2004
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 09-2017
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de Narrative and Genre :
Mots-clés :
Cerebro Spinal Fluid; Alessandro Portelli; Young Man; Chris Mann; Turn Ups; Diana Gittins; Lunatic Fringe; JosIo Leite Lopes; Oral Contract; Kathryn Marie Dudley; Chief Male Nurse; Mary Chamberlain; Oral History; Orvar LFgren; ESRC Data Archive; Paul Thompson; NLSC; Rosilene Alvim; Past Tense; Stephan Feuchtwang; National Sound Archive; T; G; Ashplant; Oral History Document; Yvette J; Kopijn; Standard Oral History; Life Story Sociologists; Music Hall Form; Intraventricular Injections