Journal articles: 'Cultural narratives'

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Dills, Vivian Lee. "Transferring and Transforming Cultural Norms." Narrative Inquiry 8, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.8.1.10dil.

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In this essay, I describe moments in my mother's life and examine them as living narratives or "lifestories" and apply critical theory and analysis that has traditionally been reserved for written narratives. I argue that these moments are teaching tools that reinforce and sometimes challenge cultural norms and discuss how her living narratives were revised by me as I began to "tell" them to my own children. I apply performance narrative, fiction, and Native American literature theories to these narratives. I point out the cultural and generational differences in me and my mother, and discuss the influence of the different regions where we spent our childhoods. This essay is a comparative literary study of a multigenerational living text in process. (Literature, Critical Theory)

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Grytsenko, O. A. "NARRATIVES OF DECOMMUNIZATION IN UKRAINE’S CULTURAL SPACE." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (4) (2019): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2019.1(4).09.

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The article offers a cultural study of one of key aspects of the decommunization process in contemporary Ukraine, formally started by the in- troduction of so-called ‘four decommunization laws’ adopted on April 4, 2015, as manifested in the country’s cultural space through major narra- tives that describe, interpret and mythologize this process from various cultural and ideological positions and viewpoints. The methodological background for the study is provided by well-known cultural studies’ approach that, according to Paul Du Gay, Stuart Hall and others, presumes a systemic analysis of five key aspects of a given cultural phenomenon, namely, its production (creation), its consumption (reception), its regulation (by the state and other actors), its representations in culture (including narratives about it), and identities shaped or transformed by it. In this article, the penultimate part of a cultural study of Ukrainian decommunization is presented in detail. An overview of dozens of articles, columns, interviews and other texts about the decommunization in Ukrainian and foreign media demonstrates that there seem to be four main groups of decom- munization narratives, tentatively named: the ‘purification of Ukraine’ narrative, the regional (or decentralized) narrative, the ‘Bandera-ization’ narrative, and the liberal narrative, each with its characteristic modes of emplotment (from epic romance to satire), with its civilization perspective, its set of sym- bols and values, its ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’. Unsurprisingly, those portrayed as heroes in affirmative narratives (that of ‘purification’, for instance) tend to become villains in negative narratives, the head of Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych being the most prominent one.

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John-Steiner, Vera, and Carolyn Panofsky. "Narrative Competence: Cross-Cultural Comparisons." Journal of Narrative and Life History 2, no. 3 (January 1, 1992): 219–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.2.3.03com.

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Abstract In a series of cross-cultural studies of narratives by children and adolescents, we examined thematic variations as well as cohesive devices. Our subjects ranged from 5 to 15 years of age. Our initial study included Black, Hispanic, and Native-American participants. We used a story-retelling task for comparative analysis. We found that children between ages 5 and 8 substantively increased the quantity and accuracy of their retold narratives. We also found thematic differ-ences among stories by children from the different speech communities, which suggested coherent cultural schemas specific to each ethnic group. Native-Amer-ican students, who reconstructed stories on the basis of pictorial cues, also revealed strong cultural and tribal variations in their narratives. In follow-up studies, we examined the relationship between narrative compe-tence and narrative cohesion. Our subjects (ranging in age from 8 to 11) were drawn from public school groups of English-speaking American students and Hungarian public school students. In the retold stories of these two groups, we found that the Hungarian students demonstrated a more artful storytelling style, employing a greater variety of cohesive devices and establishing a more coherent narrative experience than did the American students. (Linguistics, Education)

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Gutierrez-Clellen, Vera F., and Rosemary Quinn. "Assessing Narratives of Children From Diverse Cultural/Linguistic Groups." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 24, no. 1 (January 1993): 2–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461.2401.02.

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This article examines issues in the assessment of oral narratives of children from diverse cultural/ethnic backgrounds. First, we argue that narrative contextualization processes are culture-specific and must be considered in assessment. Second, we present an approach to the evaluation of narratives that takes into account differences in narrative experience, exposure to narrative tasks, and assumptions about audience involvement. Finally, we propose dynamic assessment as a method for teaching children from diverse cultural/linguistic groups the context-specific narrative rules that are valued in American schools.

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Pederson, Joshua R. "Disruptions of individual and cultural identities." Narrative Inquiry 23, no. 2 (December 31, 2013): 302–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.23.2.05ped.

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For many Americans work plays a prominent role in the construction of one’s identity. However, experiencing job loss or unemployment disrupts a normal progress to living a successful life as outlined by the master narrative of the American Dream. In the present study I explore disruptions to personal identities and cultural narratives by conducting a narrative thematic analysis of stories told by unemployed individuals in online settings. The findings reveal five prominent identities including: (a) victim, (b) redeemed, (c) hopeless, (d) bitter, and (e) entitled and dumbfounded. The individuals performed these identities through telling stories of their disruptions that worked to reflect, construct, disrupt, and counter the master narrative of the American Dream. In this analysis I discuss avenues for exploring how constructions of individual identities disrupt cultural narratives, and the resulting implications for narrative theory.

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Wu, Shelley Yijung, and Dan Battey. "The Cultural Production of Racial Narratives About Asian Americans in Mathematics." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 52, no. 5 (November 2021): 581–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc-2020-0122.

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Although considerable literature illustrates how students’ experiences and identities are racialized in mathematics education, little attention has been given to Asian American students. Employing ethnographic methods, this study followed 10 immigrant Chinese-heritage families to explore how the racial narrative of the model minority myth was locally produced in mathematics education. We draw on constructs of racial narratives and cultural production to identify the local production of the narrative Asians are smart and good at math during K–12 schooling. Specifically, the Asian American students (re)produced racial narratives related to three cultural resources: (a) Their immigrant parents’ narratives about the U.S. elementary school mathematics curriculum; (b) the school mathematics student tracking system; and (c) students’ locally generated racial narratives about what being Asian means.

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Virapyan, Ed G. ,. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 6 (June 30, 2022): 508–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2206-05.

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Hegel (philosophy of Freemasonry). VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV (to a stranger in 2022). JERZY KAWALEROVICH (farewell to Poland). PATRIK SUSKIND (German insomnia, farce). SAADI (Nasreddin's smile). Thor Heyerdahl (Easter Island cryptography). SIGN FROM CONSTANTINOPOLE (without statute of limitations). PERFECT FORNICATION.

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Larsen, Svend Erik. "Narratives as cultural embedment." Chinese Semiotic Studies 18, no. 3 (August 1, 2022): 413–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2022-2073.

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Abstract All cultures produce stories; all humans are storytellers. Hence, by implication, narratives must serve a fundamental cultural and existential function in human life. This article suggests the term “cultural embedment” to characterize this function. This article points out that, for narratives to play the role as a tool for cultural embedment, the double structure of narratives always switches back and forth between an object level and a meta level. To capture this reduplication as a contextualized and historical dynamics, Clifford Geertz’s term “thick description” is introduced together with Jurij Lotman’s conception of culture as an interconnected primary and a secondary modeling system. After a short outline of six important approaches to narratives that have to be taken into account, the article proposes a thick description that characterizes narratives as tools for cultural embedment. A final analytical sketch of Chigozie Obioma’s novel An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) briefly demonstrates a non-formalistic approach to narratives as tools for cultural embedment in a dynamic interchange between several levels.

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Virapyan, Ed. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 7 (June 10, 2020): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2007-06.

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Method and conclusion (sketch of narratives). Homer, Graves in Troy, Antisthenes, Enemy (from the meaning of him according to the lost treatise from the Cynics in the reconstruction of the late Stoics). Plato and Diogenes, Guy Julius Caesar, Mark Licinius Crassus, Cicero, Appian, astrologer Ptolemy. Julian the Apostate, Simeon Pillar, Francis of Assisi. Rumi, Emanuel Swedenborg, Casanova, Hoffmann, Bismarck. Stolypin, Nietzsche, Camus, Beckett, Lono (Freud), Kafka, Suzuki, with film expressors: Antonioni, Parajanov, Pazolini, Truffo, Godard, Zaillyan, Confession (Makkiaveli). Thinkers from the ancient Chinese way in alleged actions and speeches. Why am I an abstraction: Saroyan, Fellini: a look at Casanova. As now in "Blow-Up" (Cortazar in the face of one of the motives of the memory). "The formula of Origen". The last message of Pontius Pilate to Rome and the future.

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Virapyan, Ed G. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 8 (August 1, 2020): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2008-05.

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The era of nationalism is characterized by the emergence of sociocultural myths, the main function of which is to adapt myth consumers to the new reality. A study of the diortic projects of China in the 19th century, which have become transitional elements of the main national myth “China is a great state and a family of peoples, each of which has its own specifics and identities”, is relevant at the present stage when the PRC is actively building a powerful national state. The novelty of the study is to highlight the sociocultural myth as an ontological modular system in the corps of the Chinese national myth.

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Virapyan, Ed G. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 10 (October 1, 2021): 944–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2110-09.

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Autobiographical note (Sinan). Loris-Melikov. Joseph Orbeli. Night under the sky of Ani. Churchill. Napoleon. Clairvoyant (Rasputin). Columbus and the Queen of Spain in a letter to each other. Brothers of Goncourt (remark).

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Virapyan, Ed G. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 11 (November 26, 2021): 1043–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2111-07.

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Virapyan, Ed G. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 1 (2022): 70–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2201-05.

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Declaration of love (Nahapet Kuchak). Liberation of Byzantium. Escape from Bordeaux. Treasures of the sinner (Grigor Narekatsi). Jarmusch (American independent cinema). Passion for Sophia of Constantinople. Eduard Limonov (sexual improvisation).

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Virapyan, Ed G. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 2 (February 25, 2022): 160–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2202-05.

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Mistry, Jayanthi. "Narratives in Cultural Socialization." Human Development 44, no. 6 (2001): 337–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000046154.

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Virapyan, Ed G. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 11 (November 30, 2022): 936–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2211-05.

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Psell. Offering to the emperor. Stone. Joke. Georgy Ivanov. Russia. Message to the ethnographer Levon Abrahamyan with a narrative metaphor by Eduard Virapyan. Thomas Mann. A letter from a stranger. Andrey Platonov.

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Virapyan, Ed G. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 1 (January 20, 2023): 70–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2301-04.

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Psell. Offering to the emperor. Stone. Joke. Georgy Ivanov. Russia. Message to the ethnographer Levon Abrahamyan with a narrative metaphor by Eduard Virapyan. Thomas Mann. A letter from a stranger. Andrey Platonov.

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Berlinger, Nancy. "UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL NARRATIVES OF DEMENTIA: TASKS AND TOOLS FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARSHIP." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.962.

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Abstract Humanities scholarship on dementia has long focused on the depiction of dementia in literature, film, and other genres. Recent research on neurodiversity includes humanistic scholarship on creativity within dementia. It is time for interdisciplinary humanities scholarship to focus on narratives of dementia that circulate within aging societies, are embedded in policy, and shape experiences of typical people living with dementia or providing dementia care. This paper argues for the normative importance of studying values-laden cultural narratives, recognizing competing or evolving narratives within a society, and demonstrating how to reframe flawed narratives beyond necessary attention to ageist and ableist language. It presents examples of approaches to social narrative analysis; describes tools and training that could be integrated into humanities scholarship on dementia and aging, and considers the potential role of social narrative analysis in articulating and launching policy ideas for aging societies.

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Guntarik, Olivia. "Resistance narratives." Narrative Inquiry 19, no. 2 (December 16, 2009): 306–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19.2.06gun.

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Narrative analysis has emerged as a central analytical force in furthering a critique of colonial discourse. This article examines the relationship between narrative and discourse, by offering a comparative analysis of indigenous narrative, in the context of Australian and Malaysian history and contemporary museum practices of representation. I argue that indigenous knowledge is underpinned by narratives that enable a radical reconceptualization of existing epistemological and philosophical practices to viewing the world. This knowledge reflects various narratives of resistance about indigeneity that challenge traditional understandings of difference, revealing the ways indigenous people make sense of the past and construct their own narratives. My intention is to explore the tensions of place, space and memory through a reflection on indigenous resistance narratives. I examine different knowledges of place and “country”, suggesting there are parallels between indigenous people’s cultural knowledge in Australia and indigenous people’s knowledge in Malaysia. Western preoccupations continue to ignore this cultural knowledge and, in doing so, they eclipse broader awareness about issues of significance for indigenous communities.

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Ho, Judy W. Y. "The cultural significance of coda in Chinese Narratives." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24, no. 2 (January 1, 2001): 61–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.24.2.05ho.

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Abstract In Western studies of narrative, Complication, Resolution and Evaluation have received a substantial amount of attention whereas Coda is regarded as an optional and relatively insignificant element. This paper analyzes narratives written by Grade 5/6 students in Hong Kong and investigates some of the contextual factors which help to shape the production and interpretation of these narrative texts. Findings suggest that the functions of Coda are culture-specific. In Chinese narratives, Coda is an obligatory element. It is important because of its role as a carrier of value-laden messages. It is the locus where the social purpose of Chinese narrative is stated, and where the cultural meaning of narrative texts is expressed. It provides a mechanism through which a process of self-reflection and self-discovery is instated so that what one experiences in the external world is given some significance. This process of self-discovery is extended to others through processes of moralization and generalization so that a general discovery of truth will result. The paper also demonstrates how the significance of Coda is conveyed through teachers’ beliefs and teaching practices.

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Brisman, Avi. "On Narrative and Green Cultural Criminology." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 6, no. 2 (May 22, 2017): 64–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i2.347.

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This paper calls for a green cultural criminology that is more attuned to narrative and a narrative criminology that does not limit itself to non-fictional stories of offenders. This paper argues that (1) narratives or stories can reveal how we have instigated or sustained harmful action with respect to the environment and can portray a world suffering from the failure to effect desistance from harmful action; and (2) narratives or stories can, may and possess the potential to shape future action (or can stimulate thought regarding future action) with respect to the natural world, its ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole. A wide range of fictional stories is offered as examples and illustrations, and the benefits of a literary bend to the overall criminological endeavor are considered.

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NERIS, WHERISTON SILVA. "BARROS, Antonio Evaldo Almeida. As faces de John Dube: memória, história e nação na áfrica do Sul. Curitiba, PR: CRV, 2016." Outros Tempos: Pesquisa em Foco - História 15, no. 25 (June 28, 2018): 192–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.18817/ot.v15i25.643.

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AS TRAMAS DA PATRIMONIALIZAÇÃO DA CULTURA: Histórias, memórias e narrativas de / sobre John Dube na Rainbow Nation THE THREADS OF CULTURAL PATRIMONIALIZATION: John Dube”™s stories, memoirs and narratives in the Rainbow Nation LAS TRAMAS DE LA PATRIMONIALIZACIÓN DE LA CULTURA: Historias, memorias y narrativas de / sobre John Dube en la Rainbow Nation

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Polgar, Nataša. "Cultural Codes of Fear." Narodna umjetnost 57, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 7–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15176/vol57no201.

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This paper focuses on a specific type of archival material from the first psychiatric institution in Croatia, the Stenjevec Royal National Institute for the Insane in Zagreb, today the Vrapče University Psychiatric Hospital, dating from the period from its foundation in 1879 until 1900. More specifically, it focuses on patient narratives featuring fantastical beings, i.e., narrations about their life relying on the genre of belief legends. Based on this material, which is considered to be an important albeit atypical folkloristic corpus, the paper analyzes and interprets the status and functions of the genre of belief legends (more specifically, the memorate) in daily life narratives, personal stories and in coding affects (primarily fear). The role of belief legends is examined not only from the perspective of oral tradition and literature, but also in terms of their social and psychological position, and through the lens of psychiatric discourse of the time, which recognizes such narratives merely as symptoms of madness, translating and coding them as the language of abnormality and psychopathology.

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Bliss, Lynn S., and Allyssa McCabe. "Personal Narratives: Assessment and Intervention." Perspectives on Language Learning and Education 19, no. 4 (October 2012): 130–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/lle19.4.130.

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Personal narratives are a critical aspect of functional discourse. The purpose of this article is to describe the impairments of personal narrative discourse in children with language learning disorders. The authors also consider cultural aspects of narrative discourse, present assessment and intervention guidelines, and delineate cultural considerations.

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Dunlop, William L., Nicole Harake, and Dulce Wilkinson. "The Cultural Psychology of Clinton and Trump Supporters." Social Psychological and Personality Science 9, no. 2 (October 3, 2017): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550617732611.

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Master narratives are culturally constituted stories that guide individual and collective behavior. Here, we examined Clinton and Trump supporters’ master narratives of election night 2016 and deviations from these narratives in relation to political ideology. In Study 1, Clinton and Trump voters ( N = 177) wrote stories about election night and completed measures of liberalism and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Stories were interpreted using an inductive approach, leading to the identification of six narrative dimensions. Three linguistic categories were also considered. Study 2 ( N = 341) consisted of a direct replication in which our inductively derived coding system was applied to participants’ responses deductively. Across studies, the narratives constructed by Clinton and Trump supporters differed on five of the six inductive/deductive dimensions and one of the three linguistic dimensions assessed. In addition, many of these dimensions, which included “redemption” and “hope for America’s future,” were associated with liberalism and RWA.

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May, Vanessa. "Narrative identity and the re-conceptualization of lone motherhood." Narrative Inquiry 14, no. 1 (July 1, 2004): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.14.1.08may.

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Lone motherhood tends to be viewed as something a woman is, an identity that defines the woman. This article takes a different route into lone motherhood by focusing on identity construction in the life stories of four Finnish lone mothers. Faced with dominant narratives that define lone motherhood in negative terms, the narrators construct a counter-normative account of their lone motherhood through a dialogue with different cultural narratives on motherhood, independence and family. Furthermore, the social category of lone motherhood is not one that the lone mothers themselves adopt in their narrative constructions of the self. Instead, they attempt to create space for themselves within the normative narratives on motherhood and womanhood, thus refuting the idea that lone motherhood is constitutive of identity. At the same time, the life stories reveal how powerful the cultural narratives on motherhood and family are – lone mothers can challenge them, but they can never escape these narratives completely. (Lone Motherhood, Narrative Identity, Life Stories, Cultural Narratives)

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Gerasimov, S. V. "Events and narration in socio-cultural practices." Slovo ru Baltic accent 12, no. 2 (May 2021): 29–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2225-5346-2021-2-2.

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The article deals with the dynamic interaction of events and narratives. As a result of this interaction, stable links ‘events-narratives’ appear; they influence the formation and transformation of social and cultural processes in society. Event-narrative links form the basis of the system of norms and values of society. The corpus of ‘event-narrative’ links creates behavioural patterns, serves as a motivator for members of society, a cause and reason for actions and an initiator of terraced events that inevitably occur as a response to events in reality. The emerging connections ‘event — narrative — action (special event)’ represent a system with a controlled feedback. Depending on a change in the factors of the occurrence and course of events, such a system can both enhance and reduce the result and consequences of events. In these systems, an event triggers social and cultural processes and creates social reality.

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Fonioková, Zuzana. "Kultura, příběhy, identita : čínsko-americké povídačky Maxine Hong Kingstonové." Bohemica litteraria, no. 2 (2022): 73–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/bl2022-2-5.

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This essay explores the intersection of culture, stories, and personal identity. It looks at narrative identity from a psychological perspective, focusing on the cultural conditioning of remembering one's life and narrating the self. It briefly discusses the concept of dominant cultural narratives (master narratives) and their influence on personal life stories as well as on one's life choices, paying attention to a form of "narrative resistance" where people whose experience does not fit a particular master narrative come up with alternative narratives. The next part of the essay deals with autobiographical writing, in which the questioning of socio-cultural norms and established beliefs is often accompanied by a violation of genre conventions and a search for alternative modes of self-expression, especially in the case of authors from socially marginalised groups. The last section then presents an analysis of the fictionalised autobiography The Woman Warrior by the Chinese American writer Maxine Hong Kingston, which depicts the conflict between two different conventions of life storying, models of identity construction, and master narratives that may occur for people of bicultural background. It also exemplifies the power of autobiographical texts to expose prevailing cultural narratives and to offer alternative perspectives.

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Cattrysse, Patrick. "Cultural dimensions and an intercultural study of narratorial behavior." Journal of Internationalization and Localization 3, no. 2 (December 16, 2016): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jial.3.2.01cat.

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This paper introduces the concept of ‘cultural dimension’ as developed in intercultural communication, into the field of intercultural narrative studies. Since cultural dimensions describe and explain social human behavior, the question emerges whether they can also help to study narratorial behavior. If so, cultural dimensions may assist scholars to study the cultural localization of global values in narratives. When conceiving of narrative as the representation of characters acting in situations, one may distinguish two levels of narrative behavior: the level of character behavior, i.e. the represented, and the level of a narrator behaving narratively, i.e. the representation. This paper focuses on the level of the narrative agency. Borrowing some classical concepts from narratology (real authors, implied authors, narrator, narratee, implied audience and real audiences), it examines how narratorial behavior may display cultural, i.e. localized values at various levels. By way of conclusion, this essay suggests how the concept of ‘cultural dimension’ could assist a study of cross-cultural audience empathy.

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Kang, Jennifer Yusun. "Producing culturally appropriate narratives in English as a foreign language." Narrative Inquiry 16, no. 2 (December 15, 2006): 379–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.16.2.08kan.

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Cross-cultural and second/foreign language (L2) studies on oral narratives have suggested that one’s native language and culture affect discourse production in an L2 and have detected areas of difficulty for L2 learners in producing extended discourse. However, written narrative has received less attention, although it can provide rich data on cross-cultural differences and hold important implications for L2 literacy acquisition and pedagogy. This study was designed to investigate culturally preferred written discourse styles and their effects on L2 writing of personal narratives. It explored cross-cultural differences in the use of narrative structural features including evaluation between first language written narratives produced by native speakers of American English and first- and second-language narratives written by Koreans learning English. Differences in first language narrative styles were used to explain how Korean EFL learners’ narrative discourse in English could vary from native English speakers’ discourse norms. Participants were Korean adult EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners and American native-English speakers in the U.S. The findings show that specifically Korean cultural strategies were evident in the Korean English learners’ English narrative discourse rather than the preferred discourse style of the target language and culture. The findings hold implications for L2 writing pedagogy and L2 training in discourse production.

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van Ooijen, Martijn, Antonie van Nistelrooij, and Marcel Veenswijk. "Contesting the dominant narrative: expanding the multistory cultural change approach." Journal of Organizational Change Management 33, no. 2 (February 17, 2020): 217–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-04-2019-0099.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to expand the theory on multistory cultural change by showing how a dominant narrative on construction safety dynamically interrelates and is contested on multiple intertextual levels in an organizational field of organizations contributing to the recovery of houses in an earthquake region.Design/methodology/approachAn ethnoventionist research approach was adopted in which interpretation of data to find narratives and designing interventions went hand-in-hand.FindingsWe found four distinctive composite narratives besides the dominant narrative to which five actors refer in their accounts, thereby contributing to three types of story patterns. These narratives disclose the taken-for-granted ideas and beliefs that characterize the challenge of changing organizational culture. One intervention, which intended multiple stories to touch the surface, was highlighted as a multistory intervention.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research could extend the knowledge on other change interventions that contribute to multistory cultural change processes.Originality/valueAdopting an ethnoventionist approach to provide deep insights on an unfolding cultural change process for both scholars and practitioners.

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Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, Stanisława. "Explicating Cultural Concepts." Vilnius University Open Series, no. 5 (December 4, 2020): 46–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/vllp.2020.3.

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Ethnolinguistics deals with collective identities and reality-interpreting narratives. Collective identity (beliefs, values, and their symbolisations shared by a community) is defined as a mental construct, access to which can be obtained through complementary and linguistically “externalised” images. Inquiry into identity is the most effective when it is concerned with language, both in the narrower sense of linguistic structure and textual narratives, and in the broader semiotic sense. Whichever option is selected, the important issues to be addressed include the linguistic phenomena that make up identity, the methodology of identity research, as well as the data on the basis of which collective identity can be reconstructed.In this study, attention is paid to narrative linguistic phenomena: language is viewed as a most human phenomenon and a significant social fact that contributes to the construction of collective identity. The notion of “reality-interpreting narratives” pertains to subjectivised stories of the world, more or less stable judgements, stories that interpret reality and assume the shape of cognitive definitions.In the course of thirty years of work on and with the cognitive definition, two types of ethnolinguistic description have emerged: holistic (integrated) and separated (isolated). The former is preferred in the Dictionary of Folk Stereotypes and Symbols, the latter in the Axiological Lexicon of Slavs and Their Neighbours. Both types of description reveal the functioning of images (sterotypes/concepts) in a network of relationships that allows one to capture the system of values that underlies the languages and cultures being studied. These relationships are here illustrated with the Polish images of róża ‘rose’ and wolność ‘freedom’.

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Elwood, William N. "Russian Formalism and Cultural Narratives." American Journal of Semiotics 11, no. 1 (1994): 173–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs1994111/227.

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Jahner, Elaine A. "Transitional Narratives and Cultural Continuity." boundary 2 19, no. 3 (1992): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/303552.

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Penn, Claire. "Cultural Narratives: Bridging the Gap." Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 54, no. 2 (2002): 95–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000057924.

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Thornborrow, Joanna. "Meta-narratives of Cultural Experience." Narrative Inquiry 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2002): 447–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.12.2.17tho.

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Srinivasan, Ramesh. "Knowledge architectures for cultural narratives." Journal of Knowledge Management 8, no. 4 (August 2004): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13673270410548487.

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JOURNET, DEBRA. "Ecological Theories as Cultural Narratives." Written Communication 8, no. 4 (October 1991): 446–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088391008004002.

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Gunaratnam, Yasmin. "Cultural Vulnerability and Professional Narratives." Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life & Palliative Care 7, no. 4 (October 2011): 338–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2011.623464.

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Rajab Ebrahim, Hallat. "Producing Good Stories in English As A Foreign Language: Analysis of The Kurdish Efl Learners’ Oral “frog Story” Narratives." Journal Of Duhok University 23, no. 2 (December 19, 2020): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26682/hjuod.2020.23.2.2.

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By focusing on the structural elements particularly the evaluative devices by (Labov & Waletzky, 1967) and (Peterson & McCabe, 1991), this study examined how the Kurdish participants’ narrative discourse deviate from the target language discourse, and how this deviation is explained in line with the cultural discourse strategies in both types of discourse (Kurdish and English). This study analyzed the frog narratives told by the EFL Kurdish participants (in Kurdish and English) and the American speakers with special attention on the narrative length, narrative structure and evaluative devices. The findings from the T-test and MANOVA statistics revealed cross-cultural patterns of differences between the narratives told by the Kurdish and the American speakers. Generally, the narratives told by the American participants were longer than those told by the Kurdish participants in both Kurdish and English. The American speakers elicited narratives with frequent evaluation. Conversely, the Kurdish participants constructed narratives with higher number of durative (descriptive) clauses, orientation and repetition.

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Wilson, Rita. "Cultural mediation through translingual narrative." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 23, no. 2 (December 21, 2011): 235–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.23.2.05wil.

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Translingual writers, in attempting to navigate between languages and the associated social contexts, bring both linguistic and cultural translation into play as processes fostering encounter and transformation. This paper considers the thematic function of translation within recent translingual narrative, where it appears both as a literary topos and as an ideological subtext. It attempts to illustrate how, contrary to postcolonial writers whose narratives self-consciously engage with their own linguistic or cultural hybridity by thematizing the power relationships between different linguistic strands, the narratives of transnational/ translingual writers explore new identities by constructing new dialogic spaces in which language choice is located outside the oppositional model set up by the traditional binaries of postcolonial theorizing. Through a reading of the work of Amara Lakhous, a contemporary Italian writer, born and educated in Algiers and writing in both Arabic and Italian, it is argued that translingual works suggest an understanding of translation as not only something that happens after the story ends, but is a crucial part of the narrative itself; one that generates plot and meaning, and is indispensable to an understanding of the concrete processes of cultural translation that shape relationships, identities, and interactions globally.

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Hansen, Per H. "Business History: A Cultural and Narrative Approach." Business History Review 86, no. 4 (2012): 693–717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680512001201.

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This article argues that a cultural and narrative perspective can enrich the business history field, encourage new and different questions and answers, and provide new ways of thinking about methods and empirical material. It discusses what culture is and how it relates to narratives. Taking a cultural and narrative approach may affect questions, sources, and methodologies, as well as the status of our results. Finally, a narrative approach may contribute to our historical understanding of entrepreneurship and globalization.

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Ruston, Scott W., Jessica K. Kamrath, Alaina C. Zanin, Karlee Posteher, and Steven R. Corman. "Performance Versus Safety: Understanding the Logics of Cultural Narratives Influencing Concussion Reporting Behaviors." Communication & Sport 7, no. 4 (August 2, 2018): 529–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479518786709.

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Athlete safety and concussion injury have garnered considerable attention recently, and appropriate evaluation of athletes following head impacts depends, in part, on athletes’ self-reporting of the symptoms. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has focused primarily on concussion injury education to encourage self-reporting; however, such efforts have not been especially effective and many potential injuries continue to go unreported. This research investigates cultural narratives, derived from sports media and popular culture, and how their narrative logics contribute to the context in which student-athletes make head injury reporting decisions and how these narratives offer templates for understanding potential consequences. We argue that performance-oriented narratives are more prevalent and showcase pathways to more immediate satisfaction of desires or goals. Ultimately, we argue that not only does analysis of prevailing cultural narratives illuminate the context in which athletes make reporting decisions but also that such understanding could inform narrative-based interventions in order to emphasize and model recommended behaviors, such as injury reporting, and values, such as long-term brain health and player wellness.

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Sevón, Eija. "‘My life has changed, but his life hasn’t’: Making sense of the gendering of parenthood during the transition to motherhood." Feminism & Psychology 22, no. 1 (August 30, 2011): 60–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353511415076.

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A narrative approach to the study of the gendered nature of parenting acknowledges that different kinds of cultural narratives surround the couple relationship and parenting. This narrative study illustrates the process of the gendering of parenthood from the points of view of seven Finnish first-time mothers. The data were obtained from 28 in-depth longitudinal interviews. Two main narratives were found: a turbulent transformation and a smooth transformation narrative. The turbulent transformation narrative demonstrates how the transition to parenthood may lead to biographical disruption in first-time mothers’ lives. The contradictory cultural narratives of intensive mothering and shared parenthood created ambivalence in the women’s identifications with motherhood and negotiation of parenthood with their partner. For these women, traditional, gendered narratives supported narrative reorientation and the construction of a coherent identity as a mother and as a partner for the women. The smooth transformation narrative, in turn, showed that willingness and effort are required from both parties of the couple in order to depart from intensive mothering and to achieve shared parenting.

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Sullivan, Daniel, and Harrison J. Schmitt. "An existential view of biography and history: Synchronic and diachronic narratives." History & Philosophy of Psychology 22, no. 1 (2021): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2021.22.1.31.

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Narrative psychologists have increasingly sought to understand how cultural, collective narratives relate to individual life narratives. Two promising approaches are the study of how cultural master narratives influence personal narratives, and the study of generativity. These developments need to be extended through analysis of the ‘politics of storytelling’ – the ways in which life and collective narratives are implicated in the sociopolitical milieu. We draw on Sartre’s late work on the interrelationship between biography and history. Sartre suggests an individual life can incarnate history either diachronically – when a person narrates their life with a focus on individual temporal development – or synchronically – when a person narrates their life with a focus on power relations between groups in society. We discuss the political implications of each form of narrative; how they relate the individual to history, im/mortality, and generativity; and how they involve forms of false or liberated consciousness.

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Kanagarathinam, D. V. "Competing Narratives." Asian Medicine 17, no. 1 (March 14, 2022): 85–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341508.

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Abstract This article traces the trajectories of the historical narratives of Tamil medicine from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century in the Madras presidency. It examines how different actors promoted different historical narratives that were influenced by contemporary political, social, and cultural factors. Marking out pre- siddha (up to 1921) and siddha (after 1921) eras of Tamil medicine, it traces the work of Ayothidoss Pandithar, the split after 1921 between ayurveda and siddha traditions, and how particular narratives became dominant through the participation of key actors in powerful political and cultural movements and colonial institutions. It offers a corrective to the dominant upper-caste non-Brahmin Tamil siddha narrative by drawing attention to the marginalization of Dalit physicians and bringing into focus hitherto unrecognized critical voices such as Pandit Narayana Iyengar and S. R. V. Das.

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Gordon, Andrew, Luwen Huangfu, Kenji Sagae, Wenji Mao, and Wen Chen. "Identifying Personal Narratives in Chinese Weblog Posts." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 9, no. 4 (June 30, 2021): 23–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v9i4.12618.

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Automated text classification technologies have enabled researchers to amass enormous collections of personal narratives posted to English-language weblogs. In this paper, we explore analogous approaches to identify personal narratives in Chinese weblog posts as a precursor to the future empirical studies of cross-cultural differences in narrative structure. We describe the collection of over half a million posts from a popular Chinese weblog hosting service, and the manual annotation of story and nonstory content in sampled posts. Using supervised machine learning methods, we developed an automated text classifier for personal narratives in Chinese posts, achieving classification accuracy comparable to previous work in English. Using this classifier, we automatically identify over sixty-four thousand personal narratives for use in future cross-cultural analyses and Chinese-language applications of narrative corpora.

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Farsi, Roghayeh. "Discourse Strategies and Narrative Repetition in the Qurʾān: A Special Reference to al-Shuʿarāʾ." Ilahiyat Studies 12, no. 1 (August 16, 2021): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2021.121.218.

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This paper attempts to explain some discursive strategies in relation to the cyclic structure of narratives in the Qurʾānic context of Sūrat “al-Shuʿarāʾ.” To that end, the paper works on three essential interrelated aspects of study. First, it detects the cyclic structure that interconnects the seven prophets’ narratives within the Sūrah. Second, it investigates the cross-Sūrah interconnections by examining the (re)occurrence of each prophet’s narrative in the preceding and following sūrahs. Third, it discusses how such coherent interrelationships among the relevant sūrahs can reveal certain discourse strategies such as narrative extension, intention, expansion, juxtaposition, and inversion among these sūrahs. Another, yet interrelated, aspect of the study is to explain the “Us/Them” distinction counted in the Qurʾānic narratives involved, and to show how such dichotomy is realized through the use of referential and predicational strategies. The study adopts and adapts Reisigl and Wodak’s strategies to address this aspect. Within this analytical approach, the narratives are examined on the basis of two strategies; namely, “despatialization” (actionyms, perceptionyms, anthroponyms, and metaphors of spatiality) and “collectivization” (pronouns and possessive determiners). The analysis of data reveals some striking findings that can be summarized in two major points: first, each of the narrative’s topoi in the social actors representation evinces the dominance of predicational strategies; second, the Qurʾānic discourse is bias-free and is, thereby, drastically distinguished from other types of discourse such as political discourse.

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Arymami, Dian, Hendrie Adji Kusworo, and Muhamad Sidiq Wicaksono. "Tourist Experience in Mandala Pepadhanging Jagad Travel Package for Heritage Tourism Development in Borobudur Temple Compound." Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities 4 (2020): 00006. http://dx.doi.org/10.29037/digitalpress.44353.

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<p class="Abstract">Tourist experience has become a focal point in tourism management studies. Unforgettable, special, and spectacular travel experience is challenged to encourage not only in quantity side in the material form of numbers of visitors but also develop values that maintain, preserve, and conserve heritage tourism principles. Development of heritage tourism by integrating the concept of tourism and cultural conservation has become one of the efforts carried in Borobudur Temple Compound. One of the core elements in this effort was the development of travel experience with channeling narratives in tourism practices. The Borobudur Temple Compound holds a bountiful of narratives that have been buried in decades. Reviving the narratives around Borobudur becomes essential in managing heritage tourism and preserving cultural heritage. Selected narratives collected in the legend of Borobudur are soon to be integrated into tourism practice. Focusing on the increase of effectiveness in creating travel experience; transfer knowledge and values of these selected stories or narratives are studied to grasp tourist satisfaction determined by tourist’s psychological flow. Thus, these experiences become essential in evaluating heritage tourism development through narrations in Borobudur Compounds. This research-based article presents the significance of travel experience into two main focus: the narratives and travel experience with the narrative storytelling, including creativity in creating tour amenities, and management from tour guide competencies from two selected Borobudur narrative. Using survey and focus group interview the outcomes shows a positive tourist experience satisfaction in which can be used as a foundation to thrust the development of heritage tourism policies in Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></p>

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Völk, Malte. "Driving, not Losing, the Plot: Narrative Patterns in Implicit and Explicit Fictional Representations of Dementia." Open Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (January 26, 2017): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0006.

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Abstract This essay examines representations of dementia in literary works. It draws a distinction between those representations of dementia symptoms that can be understood as implicit and those that can be understood as explicit. Whereas implicit representations do not treat dementia as a distinct, clearly identified disorder, they nonetheless display a certain similarity to the explicitly medicalized discussion of dementia symptoms. This similarity lies in the fact that dementia symptoms are used to drive forward the narrative action. The essay traces this pattern by analysing different literary works with this feature in common and discusses the significance of this narrative’s dynamic potential for the plasticity of cultural narratives of dementia and old age.

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