Making Sense Of Narrative Text

Author : Michael Toolan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317224590
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Narrative Text written by Michael Toolan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading. The study grows out of the theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of extended fictional texts raise, concerning the nature of narrative comprehension and the reader’s experience in the course of reading narratives, and particularly concerning the role of language in that comprehension and experience. The ideas of situation, repetition and picturing are all central to the book’s argument about how readers process story, and Toolan also considers the ethical and emotional involvement of the reader, developing hypotheses about the text-linguistic characteristics of the most ethically and emotionally involving portions of the stories examined. This book makes an important contribution to the study of narrative text and is in dialogue with recent work in corpus stylistics, cognitive stylistics, and literary text and texture.

Author : Geof Hill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527567338
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Stories written by Geof Hill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an essential companion to The Story Cookbook, and provides a compendium of the varied and different ways stories can be analysed in research and inquiry. Drawing from a range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology and literature studies, this book is an invaluable guide for the researcher, consultant or professional keen to use storytelling as inquiry. Created itself as an iterative action inquiry, and sourced from an international assembly of contributors, the 29 chapters provide an array of ways to analyse stories including juxtaposition, circumambulation, strengths-analysis, grounded theory and thematic analysis approaches. Because of the detail in illuminating each analytical method, this book provides a rich diverse and valuable resource for making sense of stories.

Author : Ruthellen Josselson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761903275
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Meaning of Narratives written by Ruthellen Josselson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-04-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors from five countries, in fields including criminology, literature studies, nursing, psychology, and sociology, explore issues such as how to make meaning of narrative interviews by considering the problem of interpreting what is not said, how cultural meanings about gender are transmitted across generations, and uses of the transformati.

Author : Michael J. Toolan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315622965
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Narrative Text written by Michael J. Toolan and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Bamberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295026
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Considering Counter-Narratives written by Michael Bamberg and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational categories is what lies at the center of the chapters and commentaries collected in this book. The book comprises six target chapters by leading scholars in the field. Twenty-two commentators discuss these chapters from a number of diverse vantage points, followed by responses from the six original authors. A final chapter by the editor of the book series concludes the book.

Author : Tina Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521835720
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Motherhood written by Tina Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 book charts the social, cultural and moral contours of contemporary motherhood.

Author : Barbara Postema
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933360966
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Structure in Comics written by Barbara Postema and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Engel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0716723824
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories Children Tell written by Susan Engel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is really going on when a child tells or writes a story? Engel's insights into this provocative question are drawn from the latest research findings and dozens of actual children's tales - compelling, funny, sometimes disturbing stories often of unexpected richness and beauty.

Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466819014
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Situation and the Story written by Vivian Gornick and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-10-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.

Author : Gian S. Pagnucci
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living the Narrative Life written by Gian S. Pagnucci and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author demonstrates how narrative inquiry and analysis are valid and important parts of the English discipline, too much so to be lost to academic politicking.