Our everyday lives are enmeshed in storytelling: the stories we tell about our memories, the people we know, and the world we inhabit; those we tell about our families and communities; and the narratives we encounter in books, movies, and television. Narrative structures how we view ourselves and everything around us. In The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life, William L. Randall shows how concepts central to the study of narrative psychology--such as narrative development and the interrelation between narrative and identity, cognition, and development--are integral to everyday life. He makes the case that all people function as narrative psychologists by continually storying their lives in memory and imagination, as well as speculating on the stories that others may be living, a process that Randall refers to as storyotyping. Relying heavily on narrative, Randall draws from experiences in his own life to illustrate various concepts in narrative psychology. His inquiry leads him to the topics of gossip, rumor, and the narrative complexity of nostalgia. In doing so, he makes the case that all people function as narrative psychologists by continually storying - or, cementing - their lives in memory and imagination, a process Randall refers to as "storyotyping".

With its plethora of illustrations, many of works published here for the first time, 'Painting Out of the Ordinary' will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in British art and society of the Romantic era.

We know that the telling of the personal experience narrative is a powerful avenue to self-understanding, transformative learning, and personal growth. This book explores these and other ways in which narrative can inform the practice of adult education, as well as how we can understand learning as a narrative process.

This bibliography - compiled to fill a gap in literary research relating to Munros work covers all of her fictional writing up to 2005 and includes annotations to interviews, Munros non fiction writings, and hundreds of critical books, theses, and articles. These descriptive annotations, coupled with a detailed subject index, display the broad range of subject approaches, assessments, and angles by which her complex, deep and multi-layered work has been scrutinized by academics, journalists, writers, and critics.

"Fondazione Prada presents, within the spaces of Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, an anthological exhibition, curated by Germano Celant, of the American artist John Wesley (Los Angeles, 1928). The event, that will take place in parallel with the Venice Biennale, will be the larger and more complete exhibition ever realized on Wesley's activity, among the most important and significative figures in American modern art. On this occasion, more that 150 works from private collections and prestigeous international museums will be presented. Aiming at a deep examination of Wesley's complex language, the exhibition will maintain a strictly historical approach. Starting from the first works realized at the beginning of the 60's, like paintings and objects, it will develop along the path of his production until his more recent works, marked by a kind of creative freedom that underlines the artist's deep-rooted experimental and innovative nature. Grouped with Pop Art for his use of popular subjects deriving from cartoon characters and advertising photos, and later on linked, due to the essentiality and compositional rigour of his production, to Minimal Art (to such an extent that Donald Judd and Dan Flavin will be counted among his greatest admirers), Wesley, as a matter of fact, eludes a simple critical definition. Besides the imaginary of Pop and reductionism, Wesley's works convey an intricate personal world where the artist's most intimate feelings are intertwined: Wesley losing his father prematurely, the memory of some of American historical personalities, the references to animals and to erotic subjects and quotations from Art Nouveau or Japanese iconography. A subtle flair for the amusing and surreal side of life, that contributes to enhance the inneffable and enigmatic elements in Wesley's art"--Gallery website.

"This volume contains some key essays by French thinker Edgar Morin on the subject of complexity, and specifically on what Morin calls complex thought."--Pub. desc.

Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

This study aims to highlight many of the present methodological problems of Iron Age archaeology in the Southern Levant. It starts with a historiography of Iron Age archaeology, showing how socio-political contexts have driven research, and how the Bible has influenced directions of study. Charlotte Whiting then takes the scholarly literature on the Edomites as a case study showing how assumptions based on Biblical scholarship have distorted interpretations of the archaeology, particularly with regards to conceptions of ethnicity and nationhood. She suggests new approaches going back to the archaeological record and includes new analysis of Edomite pottery.