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" Alive in the writing : "
Kirin Narayan
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625352
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Narayan, Kirin
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Alive in the writing : : crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov /\ Kirin Narayan
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xiii, 154 pages ;; 22 cm
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9780226568188
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: 0226568180
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: 0226568199
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Story and theory. Taking stock: parts and wholes ; Looking back: the power of first impressions ; Scenes, summaries, events ; Situation, story, theory ; Chekhov as ethnographic muse -- Place. The place of writing ; Passage to more than a place ; The feel of a place ; Others' perceptions ; Landscapes transformed ; Wide angles and close-ups ; Painful places ; The meeting place of texts -- Person. Types and individuals ; The embodied person ; Lives told by things ; Inner biography ; Nonhuman persons ; Imagining across time -- Voice. How voices sound ; Key words, key concepts ; Transcribing conversation and performance ; Quotation and paraphrase ; Pauses, guarded words, words in veiled forms ; Cultivating your own voice -- Self. Narrating ; Explaining ; Evoking ; Transforming ; Reframing ; Connecting ; Postscript writing to be alive -- Using this book -- Further inspiration: helpful books on writing
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Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In this book, the author introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904-- Criticism and interpretation
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Ethnology-- Authorship
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Creative nonfiction-- Authorship
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Ethnology in literature
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