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We explore the social psychological processes through which fan-based experiences become situated in fans' larger life narratives. Drawing on original survey data with long-term U.S. soap opera fans, we examine how the psychological mechanism of autobiographical reasoning functions in fans' construction of self-narratives over time. The case study presented here is a subset of a larger investigation into the age-related structure of fans' activities, identities, and interpretive capacities. Situated at the intersections of gerontological (life span/life course) theory and contemporary fan studies, our project mines relatively uninvestigated theoretical terrain. We conclude with a brief discussion of implications for future fan studies.

The article focuses on two different versions of the childhood and life history of a female child of a Russian who grew up in the Soviet occupation zone and the later German Democratic Republic (GDR). Besides a biographical-narrative interview, there is also a published text on the author's childhood memories. The article concentrates on the childhood of the author/interviewee, since the published version does not provide any information on her later life, and picks out two so-called key scenes that appear in both the published version and the interview, comparing the different versions with each other and examining them for ruptures, inconsistencies and changes. For the purpose of better understanding the analysis of these scenes, a third scene is added, which, however, only comes up in the interview. The analysis pursues the question of whether different presentations of a scene have something to do with the methodological particularities of an oral autobiographical narration as opposed to a written one, and what kind of knowledge is gained from contrasting two different self- testimonies.

This volume provides a novel approach to international relations. In the course of fifteen essays, scholars write about how life events brought them to their subject matter. They place their narratives in the larger context of world politics, culture, and history.This book moves the field of International Relations towards greater candidness about how personal narrative influences theoretical articulations. No such volume currently exists in the field of international relations

This volume provides a novel approach to international relations. In the course of fifteen essays, scholars write about how life events brought them to their subject matter. They place their narratives in the larger context of world politics, culture, and history. This book moves the field of International Relations towards greater candidness about how personal narrative influences theoretical articulations. No such volume currently exists in the field of international relations.

Intro -- Contents -- Overture -- 1. Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice -- 2. Counter-Philosophy and the Pawn of Voice -- The Metaphysical Voice -- Worlds of Philosophical Difference -- Pictures of Destruction -- Derrida's Austin and the Stake of Positivism -- Exclusion of the Theory of Excuses: On the Tragic -- Exclusion of the Theory of the Non-Serious -- Skepticism and the Serious -- Two Pictures of Communication: Assigning -- What (Thing) Is Transmitted? Austin Moves -- Two Pictures of Language in Relation to (the) World -- Three Pictures of My Attachment to My Words: Signing -- 3. Opera and the Lease of Voice -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Subject Index -- Name Index.