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Editors' Introduction | 5 | |
Preface | 7 | |
Acknowledgments | 12 | |
1. | Assumptions of the Method | 13 |
The Subject and the Biographical Method | 13 | |
Exemplars | 14 | |
Situating the Method | 17 | |
The Subject in the Text: An Aside | 20 | |
Standards of Autobiographical Truth | 23 | |
Recapitulation | 25 | |
2. | A Clarification of Terms | 27 |
Clarifying Terms | 27 | |
Lives, Persons, Selves, Experiences | 28 | |
Approaches to Autobiography, Life History, and Biography | 34 | |
Life Stories, Self Stories, and Personal Experience Stories | 42 | |
Writing, Difference, and Presence | 44 | |
Conclusions | 47 | |
3. | Interpretive Guidelines | 49 |
Objective, Natural History Approaches | 49 | |
The Classic Approach | 50 | |
Problems with the Classic, Objective Approach: The Jack-Roller | 52 | |
Objective Hermeneutics and Biographical Narratives | 54 | |
Interpretive Strategies | 56 | |
Interpretive Formats | 58 | |
The Biographical Illusion | 61 | |
Making Experience Come Out Right | 62 | |
Group Storytelling | 63 | |
Making Sense of an Individual's Life I: Sartre and Flaubert | 64 | |
Making Sense of an Individual's Life II: Alcoholics | 66 | |
The Progressive-Regressive Method | 67 | |
Conclusions | 68 | |
4. | Selves, Stories, and Experiences | 69 |
Capturing and Studying Lived Experience | 69 | |
The Epiphany | 70 | |
Forms of the Epiphany | 71 | |
The Cultural Locus of Stories | 73 | |
Limits of the Story | 74 | |
Process, Structure, and Stories | 75 | |
True and False Stories? | 75 | |
The Self-Narrative | 78 | |
Obituaries | 78 | |
5. | In Conclusion: Representing Lives | 81 |
References | 85 | |
About the Author | 95 |
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