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Angela Lait Telling Tales (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Telling Tales
- Publication Name
- Telling Tales : Work, Narrative and Identity in a Market Age
- Title
- Telling Tales
- EAN
- 9780719085222
- ISBN
- 9780719085222
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release Year
- 2012
- Release Date
- 17/12/2012
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- Work, Narrative and Identity in a Market Age
- ISBN-10
- 0719085225
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Subject
- Sociology / General, Human Services
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Subject Area
- Social Science
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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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. -- .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719085225
ISBN-13
9780719085222
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159946369
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Telling Tales : Work, Narrative and Identity in a Market Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Sociology / General, Human Services
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
Angela Lait offers a brilliant analysis of the rhetoric of business-speak. This is a distinctive and important interdisciplinary contribution to analyses of the world of work.Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, Angela Lait offers a brilliant analysis of the rhetoric of business-speak. This is a distinctive and important interdisciplinary contribution to analyses of the world of work.Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University and the London School of Economics and Political ScienceLait uses a broad, interdisciplinary literary critique to highlight the intersection of individual identity, popular literature and work alienation., "Angela Lait offers a brilliant analysis of the rhetoric of business-speak. This is a distinctive and important interdisciplinary contribution to analyses of the world of work." -- Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, Angela Lait offers a brilliant analysis of the rhetoric of business-speak. This is a distinctive and important interdisciplinary contribution to analyses of the world of work. Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University and the London School of Economics and Political Science Lait uses a broad, interdisciplinary literary critique to highlight the intersection of individual identity, popular literature and work alienation.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
306.36
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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