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Titolo: | Biography and Turning Points in Europe and America / edited by Karla B. Hackstaff, Feiwel Kupferberg, and Catherine Negroni |
Pubblicazione: | Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2012 |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina: | 920.002 |
Soggetto topico: | Life change events |
Biography as a literary form | |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Research | |
REFERENCE - Writing Skills | |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Rhetoric | |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Composition & Creative Writing | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | NegroniCatherine KupferbergFeiwel <1946-> HackstaffKarla B. <1954-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark / Feiwel Kupferberg -- Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations / Catherine Negroni -- Conjugal deparation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Quebec / Ana Gherghel and Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques -- MIgration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of biography / Thea D. Boldt -- Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood / Gerhard Jost -- Decisive turning points in life trajectories of violence among young men in the barrios of Caracas: the initiation and biographical reconversion to non-violent lifestyles / Verónica Zubillaga -- The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary / Ágnes Sántha -- Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives / Nicki Ward -- Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia / Liana Ipatova -- Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives / Feiwel Kupferberg. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This sociological collection advances the argument that the concept of a "turning point" expands our understanding of life experiences from a descriptive to a deeper and more abstract level of analysis. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Biography and Turning Points in Europe and America |
ISBN: | 1-4473-0765-8 |
1-280-87748-0 | |
9786613718792 | |
1-4473-0740-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453041003321 |
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