Stories Community And Place
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Stories Community And Place
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Author : Barbara Johnstone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Stories Community And Place written by Barbara Johnstone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
From the Blurb: Though social scientists often talk about the "mainstream" of American society, they have very rarely studied it. Stories, Community, and Place does look at this group, examining the socio-linguistic behavior of the white middle-class population of a Midwest city. Barbara Johnstone focuses on the stories people tell about their lives and the stories they jointly create to define the place where they live. She looks at people's stories about incidents in their own lives, discussing what it is that these stories share, in structure and in theme, and what it is that gives each speaker a creative individual voice. She then examines how people use narrative to create, perpetuate, and manipulate social roles and relations. How, for example, are gender roles reflected in the stories women and men tell, and how do men's and women's stories create worlds of contest and community? How do people use reported speech to indicate what their relationships to police officers and other authority figures are like, while simultaneously suggesting what these relationships should be like? The final section of the book connects narrative with place. The author shows, for example, how stories are anchored in the local sociolinguistic world partly by being anchored in the local physical world. Another kind of connection between narrative and place is exemplified in a "community story" created by the media about a natural disaster in the city. This is a story which belongs to the city rather than to any of its citizens, and one in which the city and its citizens become one. Stories, Community, and Place will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and folklorists, as well as to narratologists of any persuasion.
Narratives Of Community
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Author : Roxanne Harde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Narratives Of Community written by Roxanne Harde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
Narratives of Community draws together essays that examine short story sequences by women through the lenses of Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s theoretical essay, â oeNarrative of Community.â Reading texts from countries around the world, the collectionâ (TM)s twenty-two contributors expand scholarship on the genre as they employ diverse theoretical models to consider how female identity is negotiated in community or the roles of women in domestic, social and literary community. Grouped into four sections based on these examinations, the essays demonstrate how Zagarellâ (TM)s theory can provide a point of reference for multiple approaches to womenâ (TM)s writing as they read the semiotic systems of community. While â oenarrative of communityâ provides an organizing principle behind this collection, these essays offer critical approaches grounded in a wide variety of disciplines. Zagarell contributes the collectionâ (TM)s concluding essay, in which she provides a series of reflections on literary and cultural representations of community, on generic categorizations of community, and on regionalism and narrative of community as she returns to theoretical ground she first broke almost twenty years ago. Overall, these essays bring their contributors and readers into a community engaged with a narrative genre that inspires and affords a rich and growing tradition of scholarship. With Narratives of Community, editor Roxanne Harde offers a wealth of critical essays on a wide variety of women's linked series of short stories, essays that can be seen overall to explore the genre as a kind of meeting house of fictional form and meaning for an inclusive sororal community. The book itself joins a growing critical community of monographs and essay collections that have been critically documenting the rise of the modern genre of the story cycle to a place second only to the novel. But more than simply joining this critical venture, Narratives of Community makes a major contribution to studies in the short story, feminist theory, women's studies, and genre theory. Its introduction and essays should prove of enduring interest to scholars and critics in these fields, as well as continue highly useful in the undergraduate and graduate classrooms. â " Gerald Lynch, Professor of English, University of Ottawa The introduction, by Prof. Harde, and the 20 essays in the book dialogue with Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s proposed paradigm â oenarratives of communityâ , which other scholars have called â oeshort story cyclesâ or â oestory sequencesâ . Zagarellâ (TM)s proposal organically blends a generic model with a thematic concern to explain how women writing community often turn to a particular narrative style that itself supports the literary creation of that community. Harde and the volume contributors appropriate this brilliant and engaging proposal in the context of other crucial discussions of the genreâ "notably Forest Ingramâ (TM)s germinal study, J. Gerald Kennedyâ (TM)s work, and those by Robert Luscher, Maggie Dunn and Anne Morris, James Nagel, Gerald Lynch and (Iâ (TM)m honored to note), my own study on Asian American short story cyclesâ "to expand the range of the critical discussion on the form. The quality and diversity of the essays remind us that there is still much work that can be done in the area of genre studies. The volume emphasizes an important caveat to one vital misconception: that although writers like James Joyce or Sherwood Anderson are thought to be the precursors or, even, â oeinventorsâ of the form, womenâ (TM)s sequences, by Sara Orne Jewett and Elizabeth Gaskell, among others, actually predate the work of the male writers. This fact suggests that the development of the form as a genre that attends to specific perspectives or creative formulations of and by women needs to be considered in depth. The temporal scope of the volume is therefore a vital contribution to scholarship on the form, as is the diversity of the writers analyzed. Indeed, the examination of narratives by writers from different countries and that focus on characters from different time periods, racial, religious, or ethnic communities, and social class impels a multilayered reading of the texts that inevitably promotes a nuanced understanding of the project of each of the writers, a project that connects issues of individuality and community in varied and often surprising ways. The essays thus critically explore the notion of community in its myriad associations with the individual and as a crucial site not only for womenâ (TM)s action upon the world but also for her creative endeavors. The essays in the volume revisit familiar textsâ "Naylorâ (TM)s The Women of Brewster Place, Cisnerosâ (TM)s The House on Mango Street, Kingstonâ (TM)s The Woman Warrior, Weltyâ (TM)s The Golden Apples, Munroâ (TM)s The Lives of Girls and Women, among othersâ "but offer new perspectives on the way form interacts with issues of womenâ (TM)s communities and women creating community in these works. Significantly, it also offers readings on texts that have not been analyzed in detail from this perspectiveâ "Gaskellâ (TM)s Cranford or Woolfâ (TM)s A Haunted House, for exampleâ "thus contributing to a continuing conversation about the ways women write. The juxtaposition of the familiar and the new expand the paradigms of current criticism not only on the story cycle but also on womenâ (TM)s writing in general. â "Rocio Davis, Professor of Literature, University of Navarre Roxanne Hardeâ (TM)s forthcoming volume, Narratives of Community: Womenâ (TM)s Short Story Sequences, provides an abundant collection of varied responses to Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s longstanding call for further in-depth exploration of the genre that Zagarell christened â oethe narrative of communityâ in her 1988 essay linking non-novelistic narrative form with representations of female experience. As Harde observes, such narratives of community overlap significantly with the growing canon of unified but discontinuous collections of autonomous stories that critics have variously labeled as the short story cycle/ sequence/ composite . . . The essays in her collection examine a rich variety of such works by women, extending the scholarship in this area. . . Hardeâ (TM)s ample collection of essays presents a concerted and diverse exploration of the implications of the short story sequence form as a representation of womenâ (TM)s lives as part of and in conflict with membership in a community. . . . Overall, Hardeâ (TM)s volume is a welcome addition to current scholarship on the short story sequence, bringing in a variety of new voices and perspectives to the community of scholars who have engaged in the exploration of this paradoxical, evolving, and increasingly popular genre. â " Dr. Luscher
How Spaces Become Places
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Author : John Forester
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
How Spaces Become Places written by John Forester and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with City planning categories.
"A diverse set of place makers describe how they transformed contested or empty "spaces" into vibrant and functional "places." Spanning four countries and ten U.S. locales, these projects range from building affordable housing, to community building in the aftermath of racial violence, to the integration of the arts in community development. By recounting how they built trust, diagnosed local problems, and convened stakeholders to invent solutions, place makers offer pragmatic, instructive strategies to employ in other communities"--
Narratives Of Community In The Black British Short Story
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Author : Bettina Jansen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-16
Narratives Of Community In The Black British Short Story written by Bettina Jansen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.
Place And Community Based Education In Schools
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Author : Gregory A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Place And Community Based Education In Schools written by Gregory A. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Education categories.
Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people’s attention beyond the classroom to the world as it actually is, and to engage them in the process of devising solutions to the social and environmental problems they will confront as adults. This approach can increase students’ engagement with learning and enhance their academic achievement. Envisioned as a primer and guide for educators and members of the public interested in incorporating the local into schools in their own communities, this book explains the purpose and nature of place- and community-based education and provides multiple examples of its practice. The detailed descriptions of learning experiences set both within and beyond the classroom will help readers begin the process of advocating for or incorporating local content and experiences into their schools.
The Story Of A Tlingit Community
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Author : Frederica De Laguna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The Story Of A Tlingit Community written by Frederica De Laguna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Angoon (Alaska) categories.
Angoon area, southeast Alaska.
The Proper Place Of Multi Story Structures In An Urban Community
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Proper Place Of Multi Story Structures In An Urban Community written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with City planning categories.
Storytelling With Data
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Author : Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-10-09
Storytelling With Data written by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-09 with Mathematics categories.
Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!
Celebrating The Third Place
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Author : Ray Oldenburg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-03-04
Celebrating The Third Place written by Ray Oldenburg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-04 with Social Science categories.
Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places. Now, more than ten years after the original publication of that book, the time has come to celebrate the many third places that dot the American landscape and foster civic life. With 20 black-and-white photographs, Celebrating the Third Place brings together fifteen firsthand accounts by proprietors of third places, as well as appreciations by fans who have made spending time at these hangouts a regular part of their lives. Among the establishments profiled are a shopping center in Seattle, a three-hundred-year-old tavern in Washington, D.C., a garden shop in Amherst, Massachusetts, a coffeehouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, a bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan, and a restaurant in San Francisco.
Places In My Community
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Release Date : 2016-12-30
Places In My Community written by Various and has been published by PowerKids Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-30 with categories.
Children love exploring their community, whether it's a small town or a big city. In this new fiction series, readers follow characters just like them as they visit fun and familiar places. These lively stories take readers on a trip to school, the local library, an exciting museum, and the zoo. Readers are sure to love the fun narratives that teach why these places are so special. Colorful illustrations accompany the text and bring the storylines to life. These titles are perfect starter books for beginning readers, and can also be read to younger children to encourage a love of reading.