| Description |
1 online resource (93 pages) |
| Series |
Qualitative research methods ; v. 17 |
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Qualitative research methods ; v. 17
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| Contents |
Assumptions of the Method -- The Subject and the Biographical Method -- Exemplars -- Situating the Method -- The Subject in the Text: An Aside -- Standards of Autobiographical Truth -- Recapitulation -- A Clarification of Terms -- Clarifying Terms -- Lives, Persons, Selves, Experiences -- Approaches to Autobiography, Life History, and Biography -- Life Stories, Self Stories, and Personal Experience Stories -- Writing, Difference, and Presence -- Interpretive Guidelines -- Objective, Natural History Approaches -- The Classic Approach -- Problems with the Classic, Objective Approach: The Jack-Roller -- Objective Hermeneutics and Biographical Narratives -- Interpretive Strategies -- Interpretive Formats -- The Biographical Illusion -- Making Experience Come Out Right -- Group Storytelling -- Making Sense of an Individual's Life I: Sartre and Flaubert -- Making Sense of an Individual's Life II: Alcoholics -- The Progressive-Regressive Method -- Selves, Stories, and Experiences -- Capturing and Studying Lived Experience -- The Epiphany -- Forms of the Epiphany -- The Cultural Locus of Stories -- Limits of the Story -- Process, Structure, and Stories -- True and False Stories? -- The Self-Narrative -- Obituaries -- In Conclusion: Representing Lives |
| Summary |
'Interpretive Biography' combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, it re-examines the biographical and autobiographical genres |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-93) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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Biography as a literary form.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1412984580 (ebook) |
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9781412984584 (ebook) |
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