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Writing and Other Familiar Things - Ronald J. Pelias

Writing and Other Familiar Things

Autoethnographic Possibilities
Buch | Hardcover
186 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-97178-0 (ISBN)
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Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities puts on display a number of distinct ways of structuring essays that can used in qualitative research and creative writing.

The book takes as its subject an assortment of things. Part 1 approaches writing from a variety of perspectives, addressing distinct aspects of writing such as the power of the written word, the prevalence of writing in our daily lives, and the writing process itself. Part 2 takes on a variety of subjects, including sea shells, hands, conundrums, masks, teaching, COVID, partners, hats, gardening, parents, politics, and hope.

By presenting various structural possibilities, the book might be described as a “how-to” book for any writer interested in a variety of creative approaches to writing essays.

Ronald J. Pelias is a Professor Emeritus from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His most recent books are The Creative Qualitative Researcher and Lessons on Aging and Dying.

Preface: A Hermit Crab Introduction PART I: WRITING 1. Pertaining to Writing 2. Writing with Uncertainty and Hope 3. A Menagerie of Writing Possibilities: Getting It Right 4. Epigraphs for Writers Considering Errors 5. Telling Secrets 6. What Can Writing Do? 7. Some Things I Remember about Memory and Writing 8. Still Going at It: Creative Longevity as a Desire for the Unobtainable 9. Thirteen Ars Poeticas Following Wallace Stevens PART II: OTHER FAMILIAR THINGS 10. Selling Sea Shells: A Narrative Conchology 11. The Hands’ Methods: An Embodied Practice 12. Negotiated Conundrums: Creative-Relational Inquiry 13. Masks: Always Becoming 14. An Old Man Stands in Front of the Class: Vignettes 15. Contact and the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020-23: An Ongoing History 16. Together, Everyday: A Composite Ethnodrama 17. Telling on Partners: Fictive Monologues 18. Hats: A Tailored Memoir 19. Digging the Garden: Posthumanist Disappointments, Puzzles, and Pleasures 20. Mom and Dad’s Letters: An Epistolary Speculation 21. Living with Loss: A Lyric Listing 22. Finding my Way into Resistance: Political Desires 23. Those Barnacles: A Metaphoric Argument 24. An Eye on Hope: A Series of Personal Pronouncements 25. Writing into Hope: A Blended Autoethnography Afterward: The Book’s Eulogy

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.3.2025
Reihe/Serie Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-97178-9 / 1032971789
ISBN-13 978-1-032-97178-0 / 9781032971780
Zustand Neuware
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