Storytelling as narrative practice : ethnographic approaches to the tales we tell / / edited by Elizabeth A. Falconi, Kathryn E. Graber.
Telling stories is one of the fundamental things we do as humans. Yet in scholarship, stories considered to be “traditional”, such as myths, folk tales, and epics, have often been analyzed separately from the narratives of personal experience that we all tell on a daily basis. In Storytelling as Nar...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Pragmatics; volume19 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Pragmatics;
volume19. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Notes on Contributors
- Ethnographic Approaches to Storytelling as Narrative Practice / Elizabeth A. Falconi and Kathryn E. Graber
- Boundaries of the Self
- Introduction to Part 1
- Defining Choices Redefined: Heroic Life Narratives of Taiwanese Buddhist Monastics / Hillary Crane
- Telling Stories, Enacting Institutions: Learning How to Narrate “Coming Out” Experiences / Stephen M. DiDomenico
- Negotiating Heritage
- Introduction to Part 2
- The Heritage Narratives of Yiddish Metalinguistic Community Members: Processes of Distancing and Closeness / Netta Avineri
- Trajectories of Treasured Texts: Laments as Narratives / Korina Giaxoglou
- Constructing Discursive Authority
- Introduction to Part 3
- Telling Traditions: The Dynamics of Zapotec Storytelling / Elizabeth A. Falconi
- Etiological Storytelling and the Interdiscursive Trajectory of a Diagnostic Odyssey / Jennifer R. Guzmán
- “Syphilis Is Syphilis!”: Purity and Genre in a Buryat-Russian News Story / Kathryn E. Graber
- Back Matter
- Index.