A Memory Away

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"...Documents the resurrection, in the last few decades, of the importance of narrative to the study of individuals and groups. The editors propose that the human sciences are undergoing a paradigm shift away from nomological models and toward a more humanistic language in which narrative plays a complex and controversial role. Narratives...help to make experience intelligible, to crystallize personal identity, and to constitute and nurture community. The fifteen articles in this collection, organized into sections dealing with memory, identity, and community, are by noted scholars representing a wide variety of disciplines, including philosophy, history, religion, communication, environmental studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and law..."--back cover.;Narrative and the real world: an argument for continuity / David Carr -- The narrative quality of experience / Stephen Crites -- 'History with the politics left out' / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- Storytelling in criminal trials: a model of social judgment / W. Lance Bennett -- Human evolution as narrative / Misia Landau -- The language of the self / Anthony Paul Kerby -- Art, narrative, and human nature / David Novitz -- Narratives of the self / Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen -- The genesis of chronic illness: narrative reconstruction / Gareth Williams -- Empowering women: self, autonomy, and responsibility / Barbara Rowland-Serdar and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea -- The virtues, the unity of a human life, and the concept of a tradition / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Ethnography as narrative / Edward M. Bruner -- Storytelling and political theory / Philip Abbott -- Narration, reason, and community / Walter R. Fisher -- Postmodern environmental ethics: ethics as bioregional narrative / Jim Cheney.