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Informationen zum Autor Brian 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. Klappentext Life and Narrative examines the perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creation and the ramifications of these creations. From both literary and social science perspectives, this volume grapples with the process of how life and narrative interact with each other. Zusammenfassung Life and Narrative examines the perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creation and the ramifications of these creations. From both literary and social science perspectives, this volume grapples with the process of how life and narrative interact with each other. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: Not...
