Life Storying in Oral History
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Life Storying in Oral History

Fictional Contamination and Literary Complexity

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Life Storying in Oral History

Fictional Contamination and Literary Complexity

About this book

This book proposes the concept of "fictional contamination" to capture the fact that fictionalization and literary complexity can be found across different kinds of narrative. Exploring conversational storytelling in oral history and other interviews from socionarratological perspectives, the book systematically discusses key narrative features such as story templates, dialogue, double deixis, focalization or perspective-taking and mind representation as well as special narrative forms including second-person narration and narratives of vicarious experience. These features and forms attest to storytellers' linguistic creativity and serve the function of involving listeners by making stories more interesting. Shared by fictional and conversational narratives at a basic level, they can bring conversational stories closer to fiction and potentially compromise their credibility if used extensively. Detailed analyses of broad-ranging examples are undertaken against a rich narrative-theoretical background drawn from the fields of narratology, linguistics, oral history, life storytelling, psychology and philosophy. The book is of interest to scholars and students working in these fields and anyone fascinated by the richness of conversational storytelling.

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Yes, you can access Life Storying in Oral History by Jarmila Mildorf in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783111072265
eBook ISBN
9783111073187
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 Life Storying in Oral History and Conversational Contexts
  7. 2 Fictional Contamination and Literary Complexity
  8. 4 Socionarratology: A Literary-Linguistic Method for Analyzing Non-Fictional Narratives
  9. 5 Positioning ‘Characters’: Story Templates and Constructed Dialogue
  10. 6 Positioning Tellers and Listeners: Double Deixis
  11. 7 Second-Person Narration: A Literary Narrative Genre?
  12. 8 Perspective-Taking in Life Stories: Focalization
  13. 9 Conveying People’s Thoughts: Mind Representation and Free Indirect Discourse
  14. 10 Narratives of Vicarious Experience: Telling Someone Else’s Story
  15. 11 Concluding Remarks
  16. Index