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Gould, Donna Marie.

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Mythic dimensions in personal narratives: Women's search for meaning.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Mythic dimensions in personal narratives: Women's search for meaning./
作者:	Gould, Donna Marie.
面頁冊數:	198 p.
附註:	Director: Marcia Gaudet.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
標題:	Folklore. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3045153
ISBN:	0493589805

Mythic dimensions in personal narratives: Women's search for meaning.
Gould, Donna Marie.

Mythic dimensions in personal narratives: Women's search for meaning. - 198 p.

Director: Marcia Gaudet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2002.

The text of this dissertation explores the interconnections between personal narratives and mythology. Personal narratives revealing mythic dimensions have the potential to become the central narrative influencing individuals' orientation and life choices. The primary question explored in this dissertation is: Where do women turn when their cultural myths do not validate their reality, articulate their experiences, or comprehend the world in which they live?

ISBN: 0493589805Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a Chapter 1 considers mythology on two levels: as a powerful force in an individual's life that provides a source of meaning, values, and truth and, also, as a political discourse that constructs cultures, determines genderized social roles, and empowers and sanctions the dominant authority. The texts used in this chapter incorporate the understanding of mythology as narratives that recognize the sacred in human experience (Eliade); with a structural analysis that locates the meaning of mythology in a pattern that demonstrates the way the mind processes thought, organizes chaos, and creates the world we live in (Levi-Strauss); and with an interconnection to the systematic organization and ordering of a society (Malinowski).
520 $a Chapter 2 proposes that the most powerful mythology of any culture—one that shapes an individual's identity and determines the relationship of power within a society—is ritualized during the rites of passage (van Gennep, V. Turner). Approaching ritual as a political discourse reveals that rituals not only serve to construct hierarchical statuses, legitimize authority, and create models for authentic living but, most importantly, they also provide opportunity to deconstruct and resist these political systems (Kertzer, Lincoln, Bell).
520 $a Chapter 3 suggests that personal narratives told by women posses mythic dimensions when they function to structure an individual's identity and position in society. Personal narratives that create new meaning and alternative interpretations of reality are capable of mediating the disjunction between cultural mythology and personal experience. This chapter examines contemporary theories of personal narratives based on the studies of Stahl, Kal&ccaron;ik, Yocum, and Harding. The significance and divergent contributions of each author are explored, especially as these thinkers re-envision the paradigmatic structure for personal narratives established by Labov and Waletzky.
520 $a Chapter 4 presents twelve interviews of women who have constructed personal myths with narratives other than the ones sanctioned by their culture or society. These interviews give voice to women from different cultural perspectives, sexual orientations and marital statuses. The women shared the events, people, or narratives that have grounded them in their orientation toward life and shaped their identities.
520 $a Chapter 5 establishes the connections between personal narratives and mythology by analyzing the themes that have been interwoven through out the work and to articulate the mythic dimensions revealed in the personal narratives presented in Chapter 4. Weaving together the various threads of these stories creates a tapestry of women's experiences that serves as mythology and points toward a transformation of culture.
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