How do we picture urban life and formulate our experience of it? Tales of the City brings together the academics' abstract tales with the vivid stories about a particular city, Milton Keynes, and the often moving self narrations of its residents. It explores the role of story-telling processes for the creative constructing of experience, with particular attention to personal narrations. The story that is now emerging, told by many individual actor narrators, is of the city as a natural setting for human life, in stark contrast to the pessimistic anti-urban tales of many academic narrators. Drawing on narrative studies, cultural and linguistic anthropology and social theory, Professor Finnegan skillfully examines the narrative conventions and cultural implications of our multiple tales of the city, and relates them to profound mythic themes about urban life, community, and to the creative role of the active, reflecting individual.
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"Tales of the City is a rich source of migrant's testimonies for oral, social and urban historians of town life in late twentieth century Britain." Mark Clapson, H-Net Reviews
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This book recounts and analyses a number of stories of the city: the academics' abstract tales, concrete stories about a specific place (Milton Keynes, that symbol of 'the urban'), and, especially, the self narrations of its some of its residents. It examines the narrative conventions and cultural implications of this multiplicity of stories and story telling, and relates them to profound myths about urban life, community and individual creativity. Drawing on recent work in narrative studies, urban theory, and cultural studies, it will be of particular interest to cultural anthropologists.
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We all tell stories and we live in their midst. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
academic tales, concrete cows, academic stories, urban tales, urban stories, narrative resources, urban theories, personal narrations, personal tales, city tales, urban theory, linear parks, sheltered accommodation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milton Keynes, Brenda Dawson, Lucy Dale, Master Plan, Rachel Jacobs, Shirley Lambert, Stony Stratford, George Rowe, Richard Walker, Timothy Hopkins, Frank Dyer, Golden Age, Bessie Wyatt, Lesley Lambert, Peter Sutton, Campbell Park, Judy Candy, Patricia Ejikame, Agnes Farley, Andrew Cunningham, Fullers Slade, Kernow Crescent, Lord Campbell, Old Street, Petts Wood New!
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We all tell stories and we live in their midst. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
academic tales, concrete cows, academic stories, urban tales, urban stories, narrative resources, urban theories, personal narrations, personal tales, city tales, urban theory, linear parks, sheltered accommodation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milton Keynes, Brenda Dawson, Lucy Dale, Master Plan, Rachel Jacobs, Shirley Lambert, Stony Stratford, George Rowe, Richard Walker, Timothy Hopkins, Frank Dyer, Golden Age, Bessie Wyatt, Lesley Lambert, Peter Sutton, Campbell Park, Judy Candy, Patricia Ejikame, Agnes Farley, Andrew Cunningham, Fullers Slade, Kernow Crescent, Lord Campbell, Old Street, Petts Wood New!
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- Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices (The ASA Research Methods) by Ruth Finnegan in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- On Narrative (A Critical Inquiry Book) by W. J. T. Mitchell on page 13, and Back Matter
- The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord on page 178, and Back Matter
- The Sociology of Cities by William A. Schwab in Back Matter
- The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau in Back Matter
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- A Social History of Milton Keynes: Middle England/Edge City (British Politics and Society) by Mark Clapson on page 134, page 156, and Back Matter
- Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City by Barbara Eckstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Biographical Research (Understanding Social Research) by Brian Roberts in Back Matter
- The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction by Martin Clayton in Back Matter
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