18 books like Relating narratives

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Narrative Identity and Moral Identity Kim Atkins · 2008 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics. Shares: Ego, Moi, Self, Autobiographie

Autobiography and imagination John Pilling · 1981 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his life through his craft, coming to understand the pattern of his own existence through the formalism of language. In each case the… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Literary, Biography & Memoir

We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories Amy E. Robillard · 2018 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate We Find Ourselves in Other People’s Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story is a collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies, in order to examine the rhetorical effects of narrative collapse on the stories we tell about ourselves and… Shares: Art de conter, Narration, Storytelling, Philosophy

Ameto Giovanni Boccaccio · 1520 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Originally published in 1985, this book contains a full translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's L'Ameto, alongside textual notes.Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his great collection of short stories, the Decameron, but his other literary accomplishments are generally less well-known. Yet he helped revive the Latin eclogue and epistle and fostered the study of Greek; he made the major Renaissance… Shares: Art de conter, Storytelling

Modern selves Philip Dodd · 1986 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works. Shares: Self in literature, Moi, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Phenomenology of Autobiography Arnaud Schmitt · 2017 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus away from the text and the initial purpose of autobiography as a means for the author to communicate with a reader and narrate an experience.… Shares: Self in literature, Moi, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

The grammar of autobiography Jean Quigley · 2000 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is the first book to bring together four distinct literatures--functional linguistics, child language, narrative development, and discursive psychology. It is an outgrowth of the historical relationship between psychology and linguistics, especially the post-Wittgensteinian "turn to language." Relevant issues are situated at that interface in a way that should prove accessible to both… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Narration, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Inscribed Identities Joan Ramon Resina · 2019 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Literary, Biography & Memoir

Destiny Mahlon Palmer · 2016 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book was written primarily for those young people, both boys and girls, and their parents and/or mentors who, for whatever reason, believe they have no chance at a successful life when born into poverty. This book is the story of a young boy who believed he was in that category while growing up. Dick's very best friend was his dog, King, who is on the cover of this book. Without King, Dick's… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Design and truth in autobiography Roy Pascal · 1960 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that autobiography is one of the dominant and characteristic forms of literary self-expression and deserves… Shares: Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Storycatcher Christina Baldwin · 2005 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling - both oral tradition and written word - is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started… Shares: Art de conter, Autobiographie, Storytelling, Biography & Memoir

The faraway nearby Rebecca Solnit · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family. Shares: Narration, Storytelling, Literary, Biography & Memoir

Auto/Biography Across the Americas Ricia A. Chansky · 2016 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Consuming autobiographies Claire Boyle · 2007 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Since 1975, French literary writing has been marked by an autobiographical turn which has seen authors increasingly often tap into the vein of what the French term ecriture de soi. This coincides, paradoxically, with the 'death of autobiography', as these authors self-consciously distance themselves and their writings from conventional autobiography, founding a 'nouvelle autobiographie'… Shares: Self in literature, Moi, Biography & Memoir

Early modern English lives Ronald Bedford · 2007 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 argue that identity is depicted through complex, subtle, and often contradictory social interactions and literary forms. Diaries, letters, daily spiritual reckonings, household journals,… Shares: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

Just who do we think we are? Claudia Mitchell · 2004 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Drawing upon diverse and specific examples of self-study, described here by the practitioners themselves, this unique book formulates a methodological framework for self-study in education.This collection brings together a diverse and international range of self-studies carried out in teacher education, each of which has a different perspective to offer on issues of method and methodology,… Shares: Moi, Self, Biography & Memoir

Integrating Spirit and Psyche Mary Pat Henehan · 2002 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this extraordinary collection, the voices of women's experience ring out loud and true!The power of narrative in therapy for women is undeniable. Used well, other women's narratives can help us to understand and rewrite our own. Here, women bare their souls, reflecting on self-enhancement and growth, on discrediting negative family scripts, on seeing through demeaning cultural messages, on… Shares: Narration, Storytelling, Biography & Memoir

Writing Life Writing Paul John Eakin · 2020 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, "Narrative," argues that narrative is not only a literary form but also a social and cultural practice, and finally a mode of cognition and an expression of our… Shares: Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir

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