Flesh and the Text - Couverture souple

Gannon, Susanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 383649020X ISBN 13 : 9783836490207

Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K., 2008

Synopsis

This book is an analysis and practice of writing otherwise in academia. It takes off from Barthes' claim that 'Science will become literature' (1989, p. 10) into a labyrinth of writing in different contexts and genres. In local and specific writing contexts, the author contrasts (social) scientific analytical writing with poetic, dramatic and autoethnographic writing to begin to generate theories about how different types of writing might work differently to construct different knowledges. Data from collective biography projects is re-presented as poetry and as a theatre script. Sections of 'creative' or 'literary' writing are interspersed with theoretical and methodological analysis. The research methodologies of collective biography and autoethnography are interrogated in the light of poststructural theories on language. This is a risky journey into transgressive writing research where linear narratives of research are disrupted via a series of detours into writing towards a conclusion that stresses the (im)possibilities of conclusions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 383649020X
• ISBN 13: 9783836490207
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible