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Refinishing the Story: Transforming Stories of Life into Life Stories
Journal of American Folklore, 2021AbstractSome of the most common stories shared by recipients of public assistance are “origin stories”: personal experience narratives that describe how people found themselves in need of help. In terms of the narrative event, these stories initially appear complete, meeting common criteria for defining narrative.
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Bringing Art to Life: Examining Poetic Gameplay Devices in Interactive Life Stories
Games Cult., 2019A life story’s ability to evoke the emotion experienced by a protagonist is crucial to its success. Authors of interactive life stories sometimes strategically alter the interactive feedback loop to help convey this subjective experience.
E. Chew, A. Mitchell
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Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1993
Abstract This is a sociolinguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. Linde claims such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships.
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Abstract This is a sociolinguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. Linde claims such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships.
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2020
This chapter highlights Coptic life-writing; identifying its various strands and forms can open new avenues for the analysis of Coptic literature. On the whole, the rise of the biographic that has been noted more generally for Late Antiquity is greatly felt in Coptic texts, perhaps even more strongly than in other languages as a proportion of the ...
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This chapter highlights Coptic life-writing; identifying its various strands and forms can open new avenues for the analysis of Coptic literature. On the whole, the rise of the biographic that has been noted more generally for Late Antiquity is greatly felt in Coptic texts, perhaps even more strongly than in other languages as a proportion of the ...
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Styles of narrative selection in crafting life stories
Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2018Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, that is, the different styles in which life ...
Gabriela Spector-Mersel, S. Ben-Asher
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2022
This chapter starts from Stein’s claim that Darwin was the key intellectual figure of her youth. In Darwin, Stein found an exciting open historical impulse. She also, however, critiqued the evolutionary framework for not thinking that through and constructing a closed narrative.
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This chapter starts from Stein’s claim that Darwin was the key intellectual figure of her youth. In Darwin, Stein found an exciting open historical impulse. She also, however, critiqued the evolutionary framework for not thinking that through and constructing a closed narrative.
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2011
Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity
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Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity
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