A selection of presentations from an event ‘What is Narrative’ put on the
NOVELLA and the Centre for Narrative Research. Just follow their link below.
Best wishes Charlotte, Reenee and Astrid Family Therapy and Systemic
Research Centre http://www.uel-ftsrc.org/
Please find a link to the event 'What is Narrative' hosted by NOVELLA and
CNR on February 28. http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/2272/
Narrative analysis has proliferated in many disciplines and refers to what
Cathy Riessman (2005) calls ‘a family of approaches to diverse kinds of
texts, which have in common a storied form.’ Part of the reason for this
popularity is that storytelling is so common that Jerome Bruner and others
refer to humans as ‘homo narrans’. There is increasing agreement that
narratives can be personal and political, that they involve construction,
telling and interpretation and that sequence and consequence are central to
narratives. There is, however, debate and disagreement about definitions of
personal narrative, how best to analyse them and the claims that can be made
on the basis of narrative analysis. The special TCRU/CNR/NOVELLA seminar
entitled 'What is Narrative?' took place on 28 February 2012 to generate
debate about some of the issues that narrative analysts consider central to
the understanding of narratives.
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Professor Molly Andrews
Co-director, Centre for Narrative Research University of East London School
of Law and Social Sciences
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD
www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/index.htm
