Narrative and genre / / edited by Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 920
• Soggetto topico: Oral history; Autobiography; First person narrative
• Altri autori: ChamberlainMary <1947-> ThompsonPaul Richard <1935->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction to the series; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION Genre and narrative in life stories; ORAL HISTORY AS GENRE; SILENCES The case of a psychiatric hospital; A BRAZILIAN WORKER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN AN UNEXPECTED FORM Interweaving the interview and the novel; FAMILY FABLES; ANECDOTE AS NARRATIVE RESOURCE IN WORKING-CLASS LIFE STORIES Parody, dramatization and sequence; MY LIFE AS CONSUMER Narratives from the world of goods; DISTANT HOMES, OUR GENRE Recognizing Chinese lives as an anthropologist ; THE ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW IN A CROSSCULTURAL SETTING An analysis of its linguistic, social and ideological structureIN THE ARCHIVE, IN THE FIELD What kind of document is an 'oral history?; SHARING AND RESHAPING LIFE STORIES Problems and potential in archiving research narratives; RAPHAEL SAMUEL An appreciation; RAPHAEL SAMUEL A select bibliography; A call for contributions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Narrative and Genre presents exciting new debates in an emerging field, where international academics from a plethora of disciplines examine the conventions and restrictions of language and genre and how they influence our communication.
• Titolo autorizzato: Narrative and genre
• ISBN: 1-134-74504-4; 1-134-74505-2; 0-585-44793-4; 1-280-05737-8; 0-203-44233-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783810803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; ; 1.