Leaning : A Poetics of Personal Relations.
Title:
Leaning : A Poetics of Personal Relations.
Author:
Pelias, Ronald J.
ISBN:
9781598746426
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Series:
Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Contents:
Contents -- Preface: Leaning Into a Beginning -- Part I: Languaging Relationships -- Chapter 1. Some Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Claims for Communication -- Chapter 2. Relational Language: A Poetic Sense-Making -- Chapter 3. Struggling for Speech -- Chapter 4. Relational Associations -- Chapter 5. Stephen Dunn and the Poetics of Living -- Part II -- Chapter 6. Self-Portrait: Standing on a Nail -- Chapter 7. Reading Barthes as a Lover -- Chapter 8. Walking and Writing with Laurel Richardson: A Story in Poems -- Chapter 9. Three Tales of Understanding -- Part III -- Chapter 10. Making My Masculine Body Behave -- Chapter 11. Jarheads, Girly Men, and the Pleasures of Violence -- Chapter 12. A Personal History of Lust on Bourbon Street -- Part IV -- Chapter 13. The Pull and Push of Friendship -- Chapter 14. Evidence of Love -- Chapter 15. Relational Development and Deterioration: Some More of the Story -- Chapter 16. Holding Mimi -- Part V -- Chapter 17. Family Lessons -- Chapter 18. Stories We Do and Do Not Tell -- Chapter 19. Remains -- Chapter 20. Loss -- Afterword: Leaning Into a Way of Being -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Ronald J Pelias explores leaning as a metaphor for analyzing interpersonal interaction. Bodies leaning toward one another are engaged, developing the potential for long-lasting, meaningful relationships. But this ideal is not often realized. Pelias makes use of a wide variety of tools such as personal narrative, autoethnography, poetic inquiry and performative writing in his exploration of the physical space of relationships. This deeply personal work is essential for scholars and students of qualitative research and autoethnography.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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