Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introductory remarks 1
4. Narrative research and the challenge of accumulating knowledge 7
5. The role of narrative in personality psychology today 17
6. The promise (and challenge) of an innovative narrative psychology 27
7. Biographical structuring 37
8. Narrative pre-construction 47
9. A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguistics 57
10. Story formulations in talk-in-interaction 69
11. Continuity and change in narrative study 81
12. Dialogue in a discourse context 91
13. Rhetorical aesthetics and other issues in the study of literary narrative 103
14. Narrative as construction and discursive resource 113
15. The narrative negotiation of identity and belonging 123
16. Narratives in action 133
17. Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis 145
18. Life “on holiday”? 155
19. Stories: Big or small 165
20. Entitlement and empathy in personal narrative 175
21. Frankie, Johnny, Oprah and Me 185
22. Rescuing narrative from qualitative research 195
23. The performance turn in narrative studies 205
24. Applied ethnopoetics 215
25. The self-telling body 225
26. Narrative thinking and the emergence of postpsychological therapies 237
27. Do good stories produce good health? 249
28. Living stories 261