Essayistic Interviews: The Interview as Collaborative Essayism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction. The Interview as Genre: Notes on Form, Praxeology, and Epistemology IX
4. Staging Culture and the Interview as Form
5. The Literary Interview and the Critical Interview: History, Uses, and Lessons 1
6. Little Questions: The Interview and Literary Studies 23
7. Performing the Literary Interview: Body and Decorum 39
8. The Imagined Interview: A Literary Genre 61
9. Essayistic Interviews: The Interview as Collaborative Essayism 83
10. The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, Death and the Labyrinth, and the Interview as Genre 101
11. Creating Knowledge and the Interview as Praxis/Practice
12. The Interview as a Philosophical Method: Irritations, Functions, and Potentials 119
13. The Interview as an Assessment Method in Psychology 137
14. Research Interviews as Interaction and Therapeutic Possibility: A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach 161
15. Interviews as Life Writing? A Literary Scholar’s Field Notes on Reciprocal Witnessing in an Oral History Project 177
16. Sounds of Democracy: The Interview as an Instrument of Heuristic Attention to Discursive Voices 201
17. Tech-talk in Oral History: Tracing, Catching, and Capturing Information on Music Technology 249
18. Notes on Contributors 267
19. Index 273