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

Let us start with literature, and with the fact that literature is an art of words That means, in the first place, a difference of emphasis between the art and the words If we choose the emphasis on words, we soon begin to relate the verbal structures we call literary to other verbal structures We find that there are no clearly marked boundaries, only centres of interest There are many writers, ranging from Plato to Sartre, whom it is difficult, or more accurately unnecessary, to classify as literary or philosophical Gradually more and more boundaries dissolve, including the boundary between creators and critics, as every criticism is also a recreation Sooner or later, in pursuing this direction of study, literary criticism, philosophy, and most of the social sciences come to converge on the study of language itself The characteristics of language are clearly the essential clue to the nature of everything built out of language The developments in linguistics and semiotics in the last quartercentury have shown us how language both expresses and structures our consciousness in time and space I speak of these developments only in passing, because there are many scholars who can speak about them with more authority than I can In this area of study a word is primarily a signifier, related arbitrarily, or more precisely by convention, to what it signifies What makes a word a word is its difference from other words, and what gives words a public meaning for a community is the disentangling of them from the associations of those who use them, including the author Jacques Derrida in particular has emphasized that this attitude to language is one in which writing or printing is logically prior to the spoken word In oral discourse the words are still, in a manner of speaking, unborn, still attached to an enclosing presence or speaking personality We can also, however, turn to the other emphasis on the art of

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The expanding world of metaphor

The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

The Modern Century

Myth and metaphor

Introduction * The Argument of Comedy * Don Quixote * Comic Myth in Shakespeare * Characterization in Shakespearean Comedy * Moliere's Tartuffe * Introduction to Shakespeare's Tempest * The Structure of Imagery in The Faerie Queene * Shakespeare's Experimental Comedy * Toast to the Memory of Shakespeare * The Tragedies of Nature and Fortune * How True a Twain * Recognition in The Winter's Tale * A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance * Shakespeare and the Modern World * Nature and Nothing * Fools of Time * General Editor's Introduction to Shakespeare Series * Shakespeare's The Tempest * Il Cortegiano * The Myth of Deliverance * Something Rich and Strange: Shakespeare's Approach to Romance * The Stage is all the World * Northrop Frye on Shakespeare * Speech on Acceptance of the Governor General's Award * Natural and Revealed Communities * Foreword to Unfolded Tales

Northrop Frye

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The expanding world of metaphor

The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

The Modern Century

Myth and metaphor

Northrop Frye's Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance