Narrative – State of the Art

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006)

Editor

This special issue Narrative – State of the Art is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 articles that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with very different concerns, and have them express their conceptions of the current state of the art from their perspectives. It was the aim of this collection of articles to stir up discussions among narrative researchers across these disciplines and open up the terrain of Narrative Inquiry to new and innovative work.

[Narrative Inquiry, 16:1] 2006. 236 pp

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 29 August 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.16.1

Table of Contents

Introductory remarks Michael Bamberg	1–2
Articles
Narrative research and the challenge of accumulating knowledge Ruthellen Josselson	3–10
The role of narrative in personality psychology today Dan P. McAdams	11–18
The promise (and challenge) of an innovative narrative psychology Brian Schiff	19–27
Biographical structuring: Narrating and reconstructing the self in research and professional practice Wolfram Fischer and Martina Goblirsch	28–36
Narrative pre-construction William Labov	37–45
A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguistics Barbara Johnstone	46–55
Story formulations in talk-in-interaction Elizabeth Stokoe and Derek Edwards	56–65
Continuity and change in narrative study: Observations on componential and functional analysis Patrick Colm Hogan	66–74
Dialogue in a discourse context: Scenes of talk in fictional narrative David Herman	75–84
Rhetorical aesthetics and other issues in the study of literary narrative James Phelan	85–93
Narrative as construction and discursive resource Stephanie Taylor	94–102
The narrative negotiation of identity and belonging Wolfgang Kraus	103–111
Narratives in action Mary M. Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen	112–121
Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis Alexandra Georgakopoulou	122–130
Life “on holiday”? In defense of big stories Mark Freeman	131–138
Stories: Big or small: Why do we care? Michael Bamberg	139–147
Entitlement and empathy in personal narrative Amy Shuman	148–155
Frankie, Johnny, Oprah and Me: The limits of narrative Crispin Sartwell	156–163
Rescuing narrative from qualitative research Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont	164–172
The performance turn in narrative studies Eric E. Peterson and Kristin M. Langellier	173–180
Applied ethnopoetics Jan Blommaert †	181–190
The self-telling body Rita Charon	191–200
Narrative thinking and the emergence of postpsychological therapies John McLeod	201–210
Do good stories produce good health? Exploring words, language, and culture Nairán Ramírez-Esparza and James W. Pennebaker	211–219
Living stories: Designing story-based educational experiences Roger C. Schank and Tammy Berman	220–228
Announcement
New APA Division for Qualitative Inquiry Proposed	229

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