Narrative and Genre - Contexts and Types of Communication

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

Sommario

1: Introduction; 2: Oral History As Genre; 3: Silences; 4: A Brazilian Worker's Autobiography in an Unexpected Form; 5: Family Fables; 6: Anecdote as Narrative Resource in Working-Class Life Stories; 7: My Life as Consumer; 8: Distant Homes, Our Genre; 9: The Oral History Interview in a Cross-Cultural Setting; 10: In the Archive, in the Field; 11: Sharing and Reshaping Life Stories

Info autore

Paul Thompson

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Thompson, Paul (University of Warwick Thompson, Thompson Paul
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Thompson (Editore), Thompson Paul (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138528574
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52857-4
• Pagine: 201
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy