Angela Lait

Telling tales

Work, narrative and identity in a market age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Broad ranging, interdisciplinary, this book seeks to understand the corporate conceptions of identity and work, and how they are reflected in our wider culture - through novels, cookery writing, autobiography and the many constructions of narrative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085222
• ISBN-10: 0719085225
• Artikelnr.: 38051177

Autorenporträt

Angela Lait is a freelance author and researcher

Inhaltsangabe

1 Business I: Taking charge: management and self-management in a flexible
culture II: Manuals of becoming: self-help for the failing 2 Identity Sink
or swim: the dilemma of the failing middle-class professional 3 Trauma Ian
McEwan's Saturday: a tale of the vulnerable professional 4 Escape Heaven,
heroes and horticulture: the search for solace and meaning 5 Recovery
Narratives of becoming: slow working towards a better life-story 6
Autobiography Writing the self Conclusion The meaning and value of
self-mastery Appendices Bibliography Index