LEADER 02547oam 22004333 450 001 9910790051803321 005 20240116200905.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000083695 035 $a(EBL)669502 035 $a(OCoLC)707080631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC669502 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000083695 100 $a20131216d2011|||| uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStorytelling in daily life $eperforming narrative /$fKristin Langellier & Eric E. Peterson 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cTemple University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-59213-212-X 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Part I: A Communication Approach to Storytelling; 1. Performing Narrative in Daily Life; Part II: Family Storytelling: A Strategy of Small Group Culture; 2. Ordering Content and Making Family Stories; 3. Family Storytelling: Ordering Tasks in Small Group Cultures; 4. Performing Families: Ordering Group and Personal Identities; Part III: Storytelling Practices: Three Case Studies; 5. Storytelling in a Weblog: Performing Narrative in a Digital Age; 6. Breast Cancer Storytelling: The Limits of Narrative Closure in Survivor Discourse; 7. Performing Narrative on Stage: Identity and Agency in an Autobiographical PeformanceCoda; Notes; References; Index 330 $aStorytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and ""get a life."" So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. But we rarely stop to ask: what are these stories? How do they shape our lives? And why do they matter?The authors ably guide readers through the complex world of performing narrative. Along the way they show the embodied contexts of storytelling, the material constraints on narrative performances, and the myriad ways storytelling orders information and t 606 $aFolklore$xPerformance 615 0$aFolklore$xPerformance. 676 $a808.5/43 676 $a808.543 700 $aLangellier$b Kristin$01533665 701 $aPeterson$b Eric$01533666 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790051803321 996 $aStorytelling in daily life$93780759 997 $aUNINA