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Paperback / softback. New. Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself but also the more complex expectations of 'genre': of the forms expected within a given context and type of communication. This collection of essays by internationl academics draws on a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities to examine how far the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence what messages they can convey. After investigating the problem of genre definition, and tracing the evolution of genre as a concept, contributors explore such issues as: * How far can we argue that what people narrate in their autobiographical stories is selected and shaped by the reportoire of genre available to them? * To what extent is oral autobiography shaped…
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Narrative and Genre Paperback - 2014
by Mary Chamberlain (Editor); Paul Thompson (Editor)
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- Title Narrative and Genre
- Author Mary Chamberlain (Editor); Paul Thompson (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 220
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2014
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780415757034 / 0415757037
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 1410
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