Narrative and Genre : Contexts and Types of Communication

ISBN-13: 9780765808172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 216 str.

Paul Thompson; Mary Chamberlain

Opis

Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and reevaluation, but also by art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also the more complex expectations of "genre," the forms expected within a given context and type of communication. How far do the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence what messages it can convey?

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Paul Thompson