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Autobiography-Biography-Narration. Research Practice for Biographical Perspectives
Autobiography-Biography-Narration. Research Practice for Biographical Perspectives

Contributor(s): Marcin Kafar (Editor), Monika Modrzejewska-Świgulska (Editor)
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Applied Linguistics, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: narrative research;biographical research;biography;autobiography;narration;biographical perspective
Summary/Abstract: This volume includes eight complementary articles that relate to the empirical, methodological, analytical, interpretive and theoretical aspects of the narrative-biographical research. The basic linking assumption of these works is a departure from the trend, still dominant in Poland and especially visible in the social sciences, modeled on the ideas taken from the natural sciences. The co-authors of Autobiography―Biography―Narration, positioning themselves between their source areas of knowledge (pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and literary studies) and a transdisciplinary auto/biographical research plane, pick up as their starting point the processual perspective of the socio-cultural world, whose central element is the active subject as the creator of his/her own biography. Suchassumptions (expressed explicitly and implicitly) provided the basis forreports on the Authors’ own research projects (cf. in particular the textsby Karolina Dudek and Anna Kurpiel) and a framework for ordering the purely theoretical aspects of narrative-biographical studies (cf. the articleby Katarzyna Gajek).

  • E-ISBN-13: 978-83-7969-058-9
  • Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-7969-057-2
  • Page Count: 147
  • Publication Year: 2014
  • Language: English
Auto/narrative as a Means of Structuring Human Experience

Auto/narrative as a Means of Structuring Human Experience
(Auto/narrative as a Means of Structuring Human Experience)

Autobiographical Strategy and Attitude of Halina Birenbaum as a Form of Passing on a Witness of the Holocaust

Autobiographical Strategy and Attitude of Halina Birenbaum as a Form of Passing on a Witness of the Holocaust
(Autobiographical Strategy and Attitude of Halina Birenbaum as a Form of Passing on a Witness of the Holocaust)

Discursive Analysis of Auto/biographical Narratives: On the Basis of Prison Camp Literature

Discursive Analysis of Auto/biographical Narratives: On the Basis of Prison Camp Literature
(Discursive Analysis of Auto/biographical Narratives: On the Basis of Prison Camp Literature)

Identity and Dignity in Narrative Biographical Episodes of Contemporary Polish ‘Non-migrants’

Identity and Dignity in Narrative Biographical Episodes of Contemporary Polish ‘Non-migrants’
(Identity and Dignity in Narrative Biographical Episodes of Contemporary Polish ‘Non-migrants’)

Autobiographies of Macedonian Refugees

Autobiographies of Macedonian Refugees
(Autobiographies of Macedonian Refugees)

Anthropological Study of Memoirs of Ethnic Minority Members (On the Example of the Lemko Diaries): Methodological Proposals

Anthropological Study of Memoirs of Ethnic Minority Members (On the Example of the Lemko Diaries): Methodological Proposals
(Anthropological Study of Memoirs of Ethnic Minority Members (On the Example of the Lemko Diaries): Methodological Proposals)

“Writing is as much as Picking out and Passing over”: Traces of a Diary in Ryszard Kapuściński’s Lapidarium

“Writing is as much as Picking out and Passing over”: Traces of a Diary in Ryszard Kapuściński’s Lapidarium
(“Writing is as much as Picking out and Passing over”: Traces of a Diary in Ryszard Kapuściński’s Lapidarium)

Narratives on the Choice of Studies as Cultural Stories: On the Example of Interviews with the Alumni of the Warsaw Schoolof Economics

Narratives on the Choice of Studies as Cultural Stories: On the Example of Interviews with the Alumni of the Warsaw Schoolof Economics
(Narratives on the Choice of Studies as Cultural Stories: On the Example of Interviews with the Alumni of the Warsaw Schoolof Economics)