Living Narrative Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

Name: Living Narrative Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling
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ISBN: 9780674010109

ISBN-10: 0674010108

ISBN-13: 9780674010109

Edition: 2001

Authors: Elinor Ochs, Lisa Capps

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This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create selves and communities. Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the authors draw out…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.17" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.034

Lisa Capps was Assistant Professor of Psychology at Berkeley.



Transcription


Conventions



A Dimensional Approach to Narrative



Becoming a Narrator



Launching a Narrative



The Unexpected Turn



Experiential Logic



Beyond Face Value



Narrative as Theology



Untold Stories


Notes


References


Index