1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967639003321

Autore

Shuman Amy <1951->

Titolo

Other people's stories : entitlement claims and the critique of empathy / / Amy Shuman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005

ISBN

9786613921574

9781283609128

1283609126

9780252092398

0252092392

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Discourse analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Collective narrative and public memory -- "Get outta my face": entitlement and authoritative discourse -- Allegory and parable as subversive stories -- Small world stories: coincidence and fate in narratives of everyday life -- Redemption and empathy in junk mail narratives -- Speaking from experience.

Sommario/riassunto

In Other People's Stories, Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround their telling. Drawing on innovative research and contemporary theory, she describes what happens when one person's story becomes another person's source of inspiration, or when entitlement and empathy collide. The resulting analyses are wonderfully diverse, integrating narrative studies, sociolinguistics, communications, folklore, and ethnographic studies to examine the everyday, conversational stories told by cultural groups including Latinas, Jews, African Americans, Italians, and Puerto Ricans. Shuman offers a nuanced and clear theoretical perspective derived from the Frankfurt school, life history research, disability research, feminist studies, trauma studies, and cultural studies. Without compromising



complexity, she makes narrative inquiry accessible to a broad population.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960822003321

Autore

Hoagwood Terence Allan <1952->

Titolo

Colour'd Shadows : Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers / / by T. Hoagwood, K. Ledbetter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

1-281-36820-2

9786611368203

1-4039-7953-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

LedbetterKathryn <1952->

Disciplina

821.8099287

821/.8099287

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Communication

Great Britain - History

History, Modern

European literature

Language and languages - Style

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Media and Communication

History of Britain and Ireland

Modern History

European Literature

Stylistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon -- Ideology and Textuality in Hemans's Records of Woman --



Scandal as Commodity and the "Calumniated Woman" --  "The Very Roads of Literature": Women Editors of Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals -- Voluptuous Opportunities: Visual Images in the Keepsake -- "The Fate of Woman At Its Root": Elizabeth Barrett's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom -- "Varied Forms Pass Glitt'ring": Violet Fane's Denzil Place: A Story in Verse.

Sommario/riassunto

This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary relationships unfold in the medium of print and, more largely, the rapidly changing culture of the century.