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University of Chicago Press
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Authorship, Ethnology, Criticism and interpretation, Creative nonfiction, Ethnology in literature, Creative writing, Chekhov, anton pavlovich, 1860-1904, criticism and interpretation, 73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology, Society, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnomethodologie, Arbeitstechnik, Stilistik, Vorbild, Criticism and interpretationchekhov, anton pavlovich , 1860-1904, Ethnology--authorship, Creative nonfiction--authorship, Gn307.7 .n37 2012, 305.8

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)

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2012, University of Chicago Press
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Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
2012, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Story and theory. Taking stock: parts and wholes ; Looking back: the power of first impressions ; Scenes, summaries, events ; Situation, story, theory ; Chekhov as ethnographic muse
Place. The place of writing ; Passage to more than a place ; The feel of a place ; Others' perceptions ; Landscapes transformed ; Wide angles and close-ups ; Painful places ; The meeting place of texts
Person. Types and individuals ; The embodied person ; Lives told by things ; Inner biography ; Nonhuman persons ; Imagining across time
Voice. How voices sound ; Key words, key concepts ; Transcribing conversation and performance ; Quotation and paraphrase ; Pauses, guarded words, words in veiled forms ; Cultivating your own voice
Self. Narrating ; Explaining ; Evoking ; Transforming ; Reframing ; Connecting ; Postscript writing to be alive
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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305.8
Library of Congress
GN307.7 .N37 2012, GN307.7.N37 2012

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xiii, 154 p. ;
Number of pages
154

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OL25256446M
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0226568180, 0226568199
ISBN 13
9780226568188, 9780226568195
LCCN
2011023619
OCLC/WorldCat
729863295

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