Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous : a rhetorical analysis /

"Based on an ethnographic study spanning four years, George H. Jensen's Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis calls upon Bakhtinian theory to analyze storytelling in AA." "Jensen covers Bakhtin's theory of the relationship between the author and the her...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jensen, George H.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2000.
Sujets:
Alcoholics Anonymous.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics > Rehabilitation.
Communication in rehabilitation.
Storytelling.
Self-disclosure.
Alcooliques > Réadaptation.
Art de conter.
Révélation de soi.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction.
Alcoholics > Rehabilitation
Communication in rehabilitation
Self-disclosure
Storytelling
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Substance Abuse.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Description
Résumé:"Based on an ethnographic study spanning four years, George H. Jensen's Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis calls upon Bakhtinian theory to analyze storytelling in AA." "Jensen covers Bakhtin's theory of the relationship between the author and the hero of a text, using Lillian Roth's autobiographies as counterexamples of AA talks. He discusses "rigorous honesty" within AA programs and provides a detailed analysis of the rhetorical act of stating "I am an alcoholic" in the context of an AA meeting. He devotes an entire chapter to explaining how AA meetings provide an example of what Bakhtin meant by carnival, a process through which humor, irony, and parody supply a mechanism for questioning commonly held beliefs. He shows how newcomers to AA move away from their egocentric personae as practicing alcoholics to adopt a new identity within AA. Turning back to Bakhtin, he describes the moments of discourse during which individuals confess past wrongs to God and to another person. Drawing further on Bakhtin, he examines the autobiographical moments of AA talks, stressing that these moments never become fully autobiographical. AA talks, Jensen argues, are fragmented yet achieve coherence through the interweaving of two important chronotopes. Finally, using Bakhtin's discussion of heroes in autobiography, Jensen discusses the kinds of heroes one typically finds in AA talks."--Jacket.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xi, 163 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153) and index.
ISBN:1429417625
9781429417624

Documents similaires