Small stories research. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alex Georgakopoulou, Korina Giaxoglou & Sylvie Patron.
• Editors: Georgakopoulou, Alexandra; Giaxoglou, Korina; Patron, Sylvie, 1969-
• Contents: Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction ALEX GEORGAKOPOULOU, KORINA GIAXOGLOU, SYLVIA PATRON Part I Small stories and big stories: Beyond binaries The narrative structure of small stories MONIKA FLUDERNIK Dialogue, Small Stories, and Exile Identities in Mario Benedetti's Historias de París SYLVIE PATRON Valérie Mréjen: Small stories ‘out of order’ CÉCILE DE BARY Are small stories another category of narrating? BRIAN SCHIFF Reimagining personal stories on social media ANA GARNER Part II Ways of telling: Genres and resources World attending in the urban landscape: noticings as small stories LEOR COHEN Moving through a moving (storied) world: small stories and their contribution to ethnographic studies of place WILLIAM KELLEHER "That was rude": metapragmatic impoliteness evaluations in breaking news small stories VASILIKI SALOUSTROU Storying taken-for-granted futureworlds in hair-salon ‘future busy stories’ RACHEL HEINRICHSMEIER Projective small stories invoking policy paths in parliamentary debates: Narrating outcome, performance, and responsibilities HANNA RAUTOJOKI, MARI HATAVARA & MATTI HYVÄRINEN Part III: Participation & Positioning Small Stories in mass media: Coalescent themes and tactics in Trump’s Twitter presidency MICHAEL HUMPHREY Telling the small, fragmented and "in-complete" about experiences with sexual violations: Narrative stancetaking in feminist hashtag storytelling practices on Twitter in Sweden FREDRIK EKLUND Small Stories in Oral Histories: Multimodal Analyses of Narratives about Extreme Sensory Experiences PHILIPP FREYBURGER Stories (not) to be told: a glimpse at resistance toward ‘hot topics’ in psychotherapy CHRISTOPHER KOPPERMAN Telling-by-doing life as a mother in YouTube vlogs MIKKA PERS LENE Contributor Information Leor COHEN is Current Head of the English Unit at The Open University, Israel and Chair of H-INET (Higher Education in Israel Network of English Teachers). Previous posts include Head of the English Unit at Afeka, College of Engineering in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Completed doctorate at Bar-Ilan University in 2011 and Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellowship at the Language Discourse & Communication Research Centre in King's College, London in 2015. Research interests include narrative, identity (Ethiopian Israeli youth), noticings, spatialization and mobility, as well as competitive talk within local interactional projects. Further research interests include classroom talk, the CEFR, and the relationship between the two. Cécile DE BARY is associate professor at the University Paris Cité. She published in 2014 Une nouvelle pratique littéraire en France. Le groupe Oulipo de 1960 à nos jours . She has also edited issue 9 of Cahiers Georges Perec and an issue of Itinéraires devoted to the fiction today (La Fiction aujourd’hui) . After her thesis on Perec, she published numerous articles on this subject, on the novel of the 20th and 21st centuries, and on the Oulipo. She co-directs with Alain Schaffner the seminar Formes, contraintes, potentialités . In this context, she directed some colloquiums, on Anne Garréta in 2019, or about Oulipo and the knowledge (L’Oulipo et les Savoirs, published in the journal Formules ). Fredrik EKLUND has a bachelor degree in Peace and Conflict studies from Umeå University (2011) and a Master’s degree in Gender studies from Lund university (2017). From 2018 and onwards he has been a PhD researcher and member of the 1767 Graduate school of Factual and Fictional Narration at Freiburg University. His PhD project is located in the triad of sociology, narrative analysis and media studies, in which investigates the hashtag feminist storytelling practices using the #metoo hashtag on Twitter in Sweden. He specializes in the multifaceted expressions of gender and violence, with particular focus on masculinity, militarized violence and gender dynamics within armed forces. Outside of academia he has gather a range of experiences and diverse perspectives through employments within social sector, Swedish penal system and Swedish armed forces, as well as commitments with anti-militarist and feminist organisation. Monika FLUDERNIK is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg/Germany and the director of the graduate school "Factual and Fictional Narration" (GRK 1767) funded by the German Research Foundation. She studied English, Indo-European Philology, Mathematics and History at the University of Graz, Austria and did her PhD under the supervision of F. K. Stanzel on "Narrator's and Characters' Voices in Ulysses ". Her habilitation book was published as The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction (Routledge, 1993). She is the author of An Introduction to Narratology (Routledge, 2009) and of the award-winning Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology (Routledge, 1996). Her book on Gabriel Josipovici, the British postmodernist novelist, Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici’s Creative Oeuvre (2000), is the first monograph on this major contemporary writer. Philipp FREYBURGER studied History as well as French and Italian linguistics, and is currently a research assistant at the chair of Romance Linguistics in Freiburg, Germany (Prof. Dr. Stefan Pfänder). Philipp Freyburger has recently completed his thesis as part of the research project "Emergent Memories: Fragmented Syntax and Textual Construction in Contemporary Literature and Oral History". Following a comparative approach, this group of scholars from Freiburg and Zurich studied the production of autobiographical memories in literature and interviews. Objects of investigation were memory narratives in French, Italian and German, while focusing on the period of World War II. In association with this project group, Philipp Freyburger has published several peer reviewed articles on multimodal aspects of memory narratives. Ana Oliveira GARNER is a media lecturer and video maker, whose work focuses on the intersection of communication and education. In her doctoral thesis, she used participatory research to produce a critical analysis of personal narratives on social media. She has taught in universities in Hong Kong and her native Brazil. Currently, working as a learning designer in the United Kingdom, she uses active learning and storytelling techniques to create engaging and applied learning experiences. Mari HATAVARA is Professor of Finnish Literature and director of Narrare. Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests include interdisciplinary narrative theory and analysis, fictionality studies, intermediality and the poetics of historical fiction and metafiction. She specializes in the analysis of narrative voices across fictional and non-fictional narrative environments. During her professorship at Tampere University (since 2009), Hatavara has worked at Ohio State University Project Narrative (2019), York University Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies (2017), Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (2016) and The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (2011). Hatavara is coeditor of The Travelling Concepts of Narrative (2013), Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media (2015), and special issues on Narrating Selves in Everyday Contexts (Style 2017), Narrating Selves from the Bible to Social Media (Partial Answers 2019) and Real Fictions. Fictionality, Factuality and Narrative Stra
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 808.036; Discourse analysis, Narrative; Storytelling
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000885408; 9781000885354
• Related ISBNs: 9781032182445
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