Ronald J. Pelias

Writing and Other Familiar Things (eBook, PDF)

Autoethnographic Possibilities

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities puts on display a number of distinct ways of structuring essays that can be 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 seashells, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040324950
• Artikelnr.: 73144068

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Aging,
and That Old Thing, The Body: A Lyric Assessment 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