Although narrative inquiry has a long intellectual history both in and out of education, it is increasingly used in studies of educational experience. One theory in educational research holds that humans are storytelling organisms who, individually and socially, lead storied lives. Thus, the study of narrative is the study of the ways humans experience the world. This general concept is refined into the view that education and educational research is the construction and reconstruction of personal and social stories; learners, teachers, and researchers are storytellers and characters in their own and other's stories. In this paper we briefly survey forms of narrative inquiry in educational studies and outline certain criteria, methods, and writing forms, which we describe in terms of beginning the story, living the story, and selecting stories to construct and reconstruct narrative plots. Certain risks, dangers, and abuses possible in narrative studies are discussed. We conclude by describing a two-part r...

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Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry

This essay proposes a conception of genre based on conventionalized social motives which are found in recurrent situation‐types. The thesis is that genre must be conceived in terms of rhetorical action rather than substance or form.

Genre as social action

In this revised second edition, Deirdre McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry and other rhetorical means of persuasion. ""The Rhetoric of Economics"" shows economists to be human persuaders and poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods. It is further enhanced by three new chapters and two new bibliographies.

The Rhetoric of Economics

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, and offers compelling suggestions as to how to withstand the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to the show business demands of the television age, we must recognize the ways in which the media shape our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape them to serve out highest goals.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

This essay proposes a theory of human communication based on a conception of persons as homo narrans. It compares and contrasts this view with the traditional rational perspective on symbolic interaction. The viability of the narrative paradigm and its attendant notions of reason and rationality are demonstrated through an extended analysis of key aspects of the current nuclear war controversy and a brief application to The Epic of Gilgamesh. The narrative paradigm synthesizes two strands in rhetorical theory: the argumentative, persuasive theme and the literary, aesthetic theme.

Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument

Anatomie de la critique

The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism

Analyse der Literaturkritik

Preface Credits Abbreviations Introduction On the Eighteenth Century * The Young Boswell * Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility * Nature Methodized * Varieties of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility On Romanticism * CBC Goethe Salute * Long Sequacious Notes * Lord Byron * Foreword to Romanticism Reconsidered * The Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism *A Study of English Romanticism Preface* The Romantic Myth* Yorick: The Romantic Macabre* Prometheus: The Romantic Revolutionary* Endymion: The Romantic Epiphanic * John Keats * Kathleen Hazel Coburn * How It Was * In the Earth, or In the Air? On the Nineteenth Century * Review of Patience and The Silver Box * Review of H.M.S. Pinafore *Iolanthe * Review of Iolanthe * Review of Bradbrook's Ibsen the Norwegian * James, LeFanu, and Morris * An Important Influence * Review of Joan Evans's John Ruskin * Emily Dickinson * The Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century * Dickens and the Comedy of Humours * The Meeting of Past and Future in William Morris * The World as Music and Idea in Wagner's Parsifal * Some Reflections on Life and Habit Notes Emendations Index

Northrop Frye

Papers

Anatomie de la critique

The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism

Analyse der Literaturkritik

Northrop Frye's Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Sound and Poetry