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Leaning : a poetics of personal relations / Ronald J. Pelias.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelias, Ronald J.
- Series:
- Writing lives--ethnographic narratives
- Writing lives: ethnographic narratives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Biographical methods.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Authorship.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Language and culture.
- Communication and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preface : leaning into a beginning
- part 1: Languaging relationships. Some substantiated and unsubstantiated claims for communication
- Relational language : a poetic sense-making
- Struggling for speech
- Relational associations
- Stephen Dunn and the poetics of living
- part 2: Listening to myself and others. Self-portrait : standing on a nail
- Reading Barthes as a lover
- Walking and writing with Laurel Richardson : a story in poems
- Three tales of understanding
- part 3: Watching men. Making my masculine body behave
- Jarheads, girly men, and the pleasures of violence
- A personal history of lust on Bourbon Street
- part 4: Holding friends and lovers. The pull and push of friendship
- Evidence of love
- Relational development and deterioration : some more of the story
- Holding Mimi
- part 5: Carrying family. Family lessons
- Stories we do and do not tell
- Remains
- Loss
- Afterword : leaning toward a way of being.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781598746402
- 1598746405
- 9781598746419
- 1598746413
- OCLC:
- 687676504
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