1st Edition

Coming to Narrative A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences

By Arthur P Bochner Copyright 2014
350 Pages
by Routledge

350 Pages
by Routledge

350 Pages
by Routledge

Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences—especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and... Read more
Acknowledgments; Credits; Preface; Chapter 1 Drifting Toward an Academic Life; Chapter 2 Graduate Student Socialization; Chapter 3 Staging a Dissertation; Chapter 4 Raising Consciousness and Teaching Things That Matter; Chapter 5 Double Bind; Chapter 6 Paradigms Shift; Chapter 7 Taking Chances; Chapter 8 Between Obligation and Inspiration; Chapter 9 Disconnecting and Connecting; Chapter 10 Life’s Forward Momentum; Chapter 11 A Twist of Fate; Chapter 12 Healing a Divided Self; Chapter 13 Finishing Touches; Story-Truth;

Biography

Arthur P. Bochner is Distinguished University Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. He is the co-author of Understanding Family Communication (Allyn and Bacon); co-editor (with Carolyn Ellis) of Composing Ethnography (AltaMira), Ethnographically Speaking (AltaMira), and the Left Coast Press book series, Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. He has published more than 100 articles and monographs on close relationships, communication theory, narrative inquiry, autoethnography and genre-bending modes of writing in the human sciences. His current research focuses on memory, narrative, and identity. In 2007, he served as president of the National Communication Association.