Tales of the City - A Study of Narrative and Urban Life

List of contents

Part I. Opening: 1. Story: 'the orders by which we live our lives'; Part II Stories of Cities and of a City: 2. Abstract tales: the narrative in urban theory; 3. Storying the concrete city: cows, gardens and other urban tales; Part III. Storied Lives and Urban Experience: 4. Stories and lives: the lates of individual urban dwellers; 5. 'That's my story': narrative conventions in personal tales; 6. Personal narratives and urban images; Part IV. Ending: 7. Whose stories of the city?

Summary

This 1998 anthropological study analyses a range of stories about the city: academics' abstract tales, concrete stories about a specific place, and residents' self narration. It focuses on narrative conventions, cultural attributes of stories and story telling, and their relation to myths about urban life, community and individual creativity.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Finnegan, Ruth (The Open University Finnegan, Ruth H. Finnegan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2004
• EAN: 9780521626231
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62623-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)