Beschreibung:
How do we derive concepts from stories and then use these concepts to understand people? What would have to be added to transform story material from the journalistic or literary to the academic and theoretically enriching? Addressing these and other issues such as the interface between life as lived and the social times, distinguished contributors explore this emerging new field in this unique volume.
A Narrative Introduction - Ruthellen JosselsonThe Story of Life - Guy A M Widdershoven Hermeneutic Perspectives on the Relation Between Narrative and Life HistoryThe Incomprehensible Catastrophe - Amos Funkenstein Memory and NarrativeA Moment¿s Monument - Wendy J Wiener and George C Rosenwald The Psychology of Keeping a DiaryReconstruction of Life Stories - Gabriele Rosenthal Principles of Selection in Generating Stories for Narrative Biographical InterviewsLooking at Change - Amia Lieblich Natasha, 21 New Immigrant From Russia to IsraelIdentity and Context - Jane Kroger How the Identity Statuses Choose Their MatchAltered Views - Terri Apter Father¿s Closeness to Teenage DaughtersNarratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography - Mary M Gergen and Kenneth J Gergen