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The Impact Of Autobiographical And Vicarious Events On Narrative Identity, Kendall Michelle Soucie
The Impact Of Autobiographical And Vicarious Events On Narrative Identity, Kendall Michelle Soucie
Wayne State University Dissertations
The primary aim of this dissertation was to elucidate the process by which we incorporate the life events of others (vicarious events) into our own lives and, by extension, into our own sense of identity. It was hypothesized that vicarious events from within a person's social network can be as germane to identity development as autobiographical events if the vicarious event involves someone with whom the person is socially-close rather than socially-distant and is an event in which the self was more proximal (shared events) than distal (witnessed or hearsay). The extent to which age, gender, dispositional empathy, and the …
Distant Localities: The Rhetorical Contradictions Of Local Food Narratives, Anna Grace Zimmerman
Distant Localities: The Rhetorical Contradictions Of Local Food Narratives, Anna Grace Zimmerman
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation explores the rhetorical construction of the local food movement through the narrative genre of the food exposé. On its face, local food appears to be a grassroots movement, and yet, through an analysis of the tropes used to describe and construct the movement, another story emerges – one intended for elite audiences. Using narrative critique, this project explores both the narratives of local food, as well as the deployment of that narrative into the material world and in the construction of particular identities. Ultimately, I argue that the narratives of local food give the impression that this way …