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Fictional and Fragmented Truths in Korean Adoptee Life Writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article explores the ways that life writing allows transnational, transracial Asian adoptee authors to navigate their complex experiences of truth and authenticity.
Wills, Jenny Heijun
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Truth Contests and Talking Corpses [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
In diverse fictions from the second century Roman Empire, two parties with competing claims to truth hold a formal contest in a public place where, after a series of abrupt reversals, the issue is finally decided by the evidence of a dead, mutilated, or
Gleason, Maud
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Spatial Imagination in Sacred Narratives of Mountain Communities in Western Yunnan, China

open access: yesReligions
Various sacred narratives have different emphases on the shaping of natural space. Creation myths reveal the basic structure of natural space. Sacred narratives of mountain gods focus on how and why mountain forests are the source of life and stability ...
Jinghua Huang, Chujing Yang, Si Chen
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Personal Narratives in Trauma-Related Disorders: Contributions from a Metacognitive Approach and Treatment Considerations

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Traumatic experiences are significant life events that are thought to impact one’s personal life narrative and narrative identity. Individuals who have experienced trauma may display fragmented memories and decreased narrative cohesion, resulting in ...
Courtney N. Wiesepape   +3 more
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Life Stories and Mental Health: The Role of Identification Processes in Theory and Interventions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The goal of this article is to explore the relations between narratives and mental health from a psychological perspective. We argue that a process of identification with personal experiences underlies narrative structures that are known to be related to
Bohlmeijer, E.T., Westerhof, G.J.
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Percursos de um grupo de pesquisa-formação: tensões e (re)construções

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos
Apresenta reflexões sobre os desafios enfrentados no desenvolvimento de uma pesquisa-formação que investigou professores da educação básica e seus processos de aprendizagem da docência.
Maria Aparecida de Souza Perrelli   +3 more
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The unbearable space of stories: The category of life in journalism

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2018
Understanding the life as human presence in journalism has been analyzed using the conceptual apparatus of G. Simmel’s “philosophy of life”. The procedure of understanding is considered as an action of intrusion from within the borders of life into the ...
V.S. Varakin
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Using Focus Group Research in Exploring the Relationships Between Youth, Risk and Social Position [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper draws upon current research to consider the value of the focus group method for exploring the relationships between youth, risk and social position.
Dave Merryweather
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Narratives and Performance - The Case of Stock-broking [PDF]

open access: yes
The performance of individual stockbrokers differs. This paper aims at explaining these differences, or at least at making some sense of them.
Blomberg, Jesper
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Gender ambivalence (ambiguity) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The tentative title of my presentation is GENDER AMBIVALENCE (AMBIGUITY?) and deals with Renaissance iconography in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. It will show that homosexual attraction, although obvious in the story (and Mann's life) is a secondary ...
Deinert, Herbert
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