Developing Narrative Theory : Life Histories and Personal Representation (Hardcover)

Section 1 Studying Life Narratives  1.  Introduction: studying life stories and life histories  2. The growth of individual life stories in contemporary life  3. Contemporary patterns in life stories  4. Studying Storylines: life history and personal representations  5. Developing narrative portrayals  Section 2 On Forms of Narrativity  6. Studying Storylines  7. Scripted describers  8. Armchair elaborators  9. Multiple describers  10. Focussed elaborators  11. Re-selfing, reflexivity and hybridity  12. Narrativity, learning and reflexibility