Life and Narrative
The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience
Description:... Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword: Life Meets Narrative -- Matti Hyvärinen -- Introduction: Life and Narrative; A Brief Primer -- Brian Schiff, Sylvie Patron, and A. Elizabeth McKim -- Part I. Routes -- 1. Narrative and Law: How They Need Each Other -- Jerome Bruner -- 2. Narrative at the Limits (Or: What is "Life" Really Like?) -- Mark Freeman -- 3. Narrative/Life of the Moment: From Telling a Story to Taking a Narrative Stance -- Alexandra Georgakopoulou -- 4. Narrative Fiction, the Short Story, and Life: The Case of Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain"--James Phelan -- II. The Ethics of Narrating Life -- 5. On the Use and Abuse of Narrative for Life: Towards an Ethics of Storytelling -- Hanna Meretoja -- 6. Identity Hoaxes and the Complicity of Social Authorship -- Ashley Barnwell -- 7. Turning Life into Stories-Turning Stories into Lives -- Lars-Åke Skalin -- III. Self-Making -- 8. The Body as Biography -- Emily Heavy -- 9. Narrative Refashioning and Illness: Doctor-Patient Encounters in Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman -- Jarmila Mildorf -- 10. Phototextuality in Sophie Calle's Des Histoires Vraies -- Catherine Karen Roy -- IV. Master Narratives and Personal Narratives -- 11. The Intersection of Personal and Master Narratives: Is Redemption for Everyone? -- Andrea V. Breen and Kate C. McLean -- 12. Shared Narratives and the Politics of Memory: Toward Reconciliation -- Michael Keren -- 13. Engaging Crystallization to Understand Life and Narrative: The Case of Active Aging -- Cassandra Phoenix and Noreen Orr -- V. Narrating Life in Oral History and Literature -- 14. The Difference of Fiction -- Brian Richardson -- 15. Lumping, Splitting, and Narratives as Rhetorical Actions: Notes on Christina J. Pan's "Reminiscences" and Deborah Eisenberg's "Twilight of the Superheroes" -- James Phelan -- 16. Who tells whose story? Beyond Everyday and Literary Stories, Fact, and Fiction -- Alexandra Georgakopoulou -- 17. Narrative and Truth: Some Preliminary Notes -- Mark Freeman -- 18. Witnessing the Impact: 9/11 in Everyday and Literary Stories -- Jens Brockmeier -- Afterword: Narrative and Life: From So What? to What Next? -- William L. Randall
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