Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life

by Ruth Finnegan and Finnegan, Ruth H. Finnegan, Ruth H.

Book Overview

How do we picture urban life and formulate our experience of it? Tales of the City brings together the academics' abstract tales with the vivid stories about a particular city, Milton Keynes, and the often moving self narrations of its residents. It explores the role of story-telling processes for the creative constructing of experience, with particular attention to personal narrations. The story that is now emerging, told by many individual actor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521626234
• ISBN13: 9780521626231
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"