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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brian Schiff (Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, American University of Paris) , A. Elizabeth McKim (Professor of English, Professor of English, St. Thomas University) , Sylvie Patron (Associate Professor and Research Supervisor in French Literature, Associate Professor and Research Supervisor in French Literature, American University of Paris)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780190256654ISBN 10: 0190256656 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 09 March 2017 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Foreword: Life Meets Narrative Matti Hyvärinen Introduction: Life and Narrative; A Brief Primer Brian Schiff, Sylvie Patron, and A. Elizabeth McKim Part I. Routes 1. Narrative and Law: How They Need Each Other Jerome Bruner 2. Narrative at the Limits (Or: What is ""Life"" Really Like?) Mark Freeman 3. Narrative/Life of the Moment: From Telling a Story to Taking a Narrative Stance Alexandra Georgakopoulou 4. Narrative Fiction, the Short Story, and Life: The Case of Tobias Wolff's ""Bullet in the Brain"" James Phelan II. The Ethics of Narrating Life 5. On the Use and Abuse of Narrative for Life: Towards an Ethics of Storytelling Hanna Meretoja 6. Identity Hoaxes and the Complicity of Social Authorship Ashley Barnwell 7. Turning Life into Stories-Turning Stories into Lives Lars-Åke Skalin III. Self-Making 8. The Body as Biography Emily Heavy 9. Narrative Refashioning and Illness: Doctor-Patient Encounters in Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman Jarmila Mildorf 10. Phototextuality in Sophie Calle's Des Histoires Vraies Catherine Karen Roy IV. Master Narratives and Personal Narratives 11. The Intersection of Personal and Master Narratives: Is Redemption for Everyone? Andrea V. Breen and Kate C. McLean 12. Shared Narratives and the Politics of Memory: Toward Reconciliation Michael Keren 13. Engaging Crystallization to Understand Life and Narrative: The Case of Active Aging Cassandra Phoenix and Noreen Orr V. Narrating Life in Oral History and Literature 14. The Difference of Fiction Brian Richardson 15. Lumping, Splitting, and Narratives as Rhetorical Actions: Notes on Christina J. Pan's ""Reminiscences"" and Deborah Eisenberg's ""Twilight of the Superheroes"" James Phelan 16. Who tells whose story? Beyond Everyday and Literary Stories, Fact, and Fiction Alexandra Georgakopoulou 17. Narrative and Truth: Some Preliminary Notes Mark Freeman 18. Witnessing the Impact: 9/11 in Everyday and Literary Stories Jens Brockmeier Afterword: Narrative and Life: From So What? to What Next? William L. Randall"ReviewsAuthor InformationBrian Schiff is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris. A graduate of The University of Chicago's Committee on Human Development, Schiff's research uses narrative in order to examine the meeting place between person, social relationships and culture. He is editor of Rereading Personal Narrative and Life Course, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development and author of A New Narrative for Psychology. A. Elizabeth McKim is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, and a founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative. She is co-editor of the journal Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions, and the co-author (with William L. Randall) of Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old. Sylvie Patron is a Lecturer and Research Supervisor in French Language and Literature at the Université Paris Diderot. A specialist in the history and epistemology of literary theory, she has published Le Narrateur: Introduction à la théorie narrative, La Mort du narrateur et autres essais, and the collective volume Théorie, analyse, interprétation des récits. She is the author of numerous articles, published in both French and English, on the narrator and other problems in narrative theory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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