The open book : stories of academic life and writing or where we know things / by Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener.
2017
LB2335.35 .M36 2017
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Title
The open book : stories of academic life and writing or where we know things / by Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener.
Author
Meier, Ninna, author.
ISBN
9789463009898
9463009892
9789463009881 (hardback)
9789463009874 (paperback)
9463009892
9789463009881 (hardback)
9789463009874 (paperback)
Published
Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (LXXXVIII, 12 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-6300-989-8 doi
Call Number
LB2335.35 .M36 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
370
Summary
The Open Book is a radical genre blend: it is an experimental co-memoir exploring the role of writing in academia. It contains stories about life without censoring and without distinguishing between traditional work/life domains and academic/non-academic ways of writing. This is done through discussions of conferences, research collaborations, supervision, taboo pleasures of 'fun' writing projects, the temptations of other work, and the everyday life encounters and experiences that stimulate academic thought and writing. Some of the main characters you will meet are researchers, their colleagues and students, sons and daughters, mothers and grandmothers, husbands (past and present), supervisors, pets, old and new friends, and creatures from myths and dreams. Some of the settings include kitchens, fireplaces, couches, gardens, universities, cars, and trains. These characters and places are all there to help examine what the above elements of an ordinary human life might mean in research and for research. Thus, it becomes possible for you as a reader to recognize the stories as both truly human and genuinely academic. This is the first book in a series of publications and projects from the Open Writing Community: a collaboration of academics from different disciplines and countries that seeks to push the boundaries of how we understand and practice academic work and writing.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Wegener, Charlotte, author.
Series
Imagination and praxis.
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Table of Contents
Preliminary Material
Torn Apart and Put Together, Slowly, Clumsily, Over Time
What If Knowledge Is Also Tied to Places?
Rest, Speed, and Recovery Time
Comforting and Very Sad at the Same Time
That's Okay, That's Life!
To Stay With It and Don't Run Away
Luggage
Sleep, Pretty Darling, Do Not Cry
I've Told the Truth, I Didn't Come to Fool You
References.
Torn Apart and Put Together, Slowly, Clumsily, Over Time
What If Knowledge Is Also Tied to Places?
Rest, Speed, and Recovery Time
Comforting and Very Sad at the Same Time
That's Okay, That's Life!
To Stay With It and Don't Run Away
Luggage
Sleep, Pretty Darling, Do Not Cry
I've Told the Truth, I Didn't Come to Fool You
References.