Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

by Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps

Book Overview

This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010108
• ISBN13: 9780674010109
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 9.1"