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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF GRAPHICS ................................................................................................................ iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................v
ABSTRACT (English) ................................................................................................................. xvi
ABOUT THE COVER ................................................................................................................ xix
DEDICATION ............................................................................................................................. xxi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................................... xxi
GUIDING LIGHTS ................................................................................................................... xxiii
HEARKENING A CALL FOR ―A MORE RECOGNIZABLY HUMAN PERSONA‖ ................................... xxiv
WRITING CONVENTIONS ................................................................................................... xxviii
CONTEXTUALIZING QUOTATIONS ................................................................................... xxix
PART ONE: ―I‖ ...............................................................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1: WHAT I AM DOING AND WHY ..........................................................................2
Writing and Romantic Individualism .......................................................................................3
Postmodern Problematizing of Individualism .........................................................................5
Postmodern Skepticism of Positivist Metaphysics ..................................................................6
Mikhail Bakhtin‘s Dialogism ...................................................................................................7
Non‐reductionist Inquiry is Less Tidy ......................................................................................9
Synopsis and a Look Ahead ...................................................................................................10
CHAPTER 2: AN ACCOUNT OF GETTING TO HERE AND NOW ........................................12
If I Only Knew Now What I Knew Then ...............................................................................13
A Linguistic Prolog .................................................................................................................13
Who ―I‖ Is and How That Affects This Work ........................................................................17
A Brief Autoethnography ......................................................................................................21
Demographics ..................................................................................................................22
A Narrative of Marginality ..............................................................................................22
Writing as Keel ................................................................................................................24
I Don‘t Need Nobody, No, No, No. ................................................................................26
College and University. ...................................................................................................28
An Accounting of Vocations and Avocations. ................................................................29
A Postmodern Dissertation? ..........................................................................................31
Why this Dissertation Inquiry? ........................................................................................33
Synopsis and a Look Ahead ...................................................................................................34
PART TWO: PROCESS & METHOD .........................................................................................35
CHAPTER 3: A PROCESS CHRONICLE ...................................................................................36
Devising a Cover for the Dissertation ....................................................................................36
Harkening a Call ....................................................................................................................36
Writing Chapter 1: What I am Doing and Why ......................................................................37
Writing Chapter 2: An Account of Getting to Here and Now ................................................37
Writing Chapter 3: A Process Chronicle ................................................................................38
Writing Chapter 4: Method ...................................................................................................39
Writing the Literature Reviews (Chapters 5, 6, 7) .................................................................39
Writing Chapter 5: On Knowing .....................................................................................41
Writing Chapter 6: On Authoring ....................................................................................41
Writing Chapter 7: On Dialogics .....................................................................................43
Writing Chapter 8: The Writer Dialogs ..................................................................................43
Writing Chapter 9: Responsive Discussion of Dialogs ..........................................................45
Writing Chapter 10: Reflections & Regrets (Things Learned along the Way) ......................46
Wabi‐Sabi ........................................................................................................................46
Philosophical Issues of Method .......................................................................................46
Sampling ..........................................................................................................................47
Regrets .............................................................................................................................48
Writing Chapter 11: Parting Words ..................................................................................49
Dead Man Writing ...........................................................................................................50
Luminous Exceptions to the Encapsulated Experience ...................................................50
Being Written While Writing ..........................................................................................50
Writing as a Transformative Experience .........................................................................51
Synopsis and a Look Ahead ...................................................................................................51
CHAPTER 4: METHOD ...............................................................................................................53
A Postmodern Constructionist Stance ..................................................................................53
Dialog as Method .................................................................................................................54
Hypotheses and Assumptions ..............................................................................................56
Interviewing .........................................................................................................................57
Creative Interviewing ......................................................................................................58
Dialogical‐Constructionist‐Postmodern Interviewing .....................................................59
Writing and Reportage as Method .....................................................................................61
Why a Dialogical Method? ..................................................................................................63
Dialog as Generative Research ........................................................................................65
Dialog and the Workshop Method ..................................................................................66
Documents Common to all Dialogs ..................................................................................67
Rationale for Interview Questions ....................................................................................67
Questions as a Whole ......................................................................................................68
Questions as Clusters .......................................................................................................69
Selecting and Inviting Participants ....................................................................................73
Snowball (Purposeful) Sampling .....................................................................................74
Sample Size .....................................................................................................................76
Sample Characteristics ....................................................................................................76
Sample Distribution .........................................................................................................82
The Pilot Interview ...............................................................................................................83
Revising ―Pilot Interview‖ Ques ons ..................................................................................84
Collecting Data ......................................................................................................................84
Synopsis and a Look Ahead ...................................................................................................85
PART THREE: THE LITERATURE ............................................................................................86
CHAPTER 5: ON KNOWING ......................................................................................................87
A Modernist/Humanist Take on Knowledge and Reality ......................................................88
Knowledge Construction as Linguistic and Communal Action .............................................90
Knowledge is Historical and Political ....................................................................................95
A Sociology of Knowledge ....................................................................................................96
Knowledge Communities ......................................................................................................98
The Social Construction of Meaning ...................................................................................101
How ―It‖ Looks to Me ........................................................................................................102
Synopsis and a Look Ahead .................................................................................................105
CHAPTER 6: ON AUTHORING ................................................................................................107
Grand Narratives .................................................................................................................107
The ―Great Man‖ Narra ve ...........................................................................................108
Personal Narra ve and the ―Great Man‖ Tradi on .......................................................111
Personhood & Identity ........................................................................................................115
The Dissolution of Authority ...............................................................................................116
The ―Death of Man‖ ......................................................................................................117
Decentering the Writer‐as‐Author .................................................................................123
Remembering as Factual ....................................................................................................128
Writing as a Private Activity ................................................................................................137
Writing as Dialog .................................................................................................................146
A Dialogical Slant on Personal Writing ...............................................................................152
Writing as Dialogically Transformative ...............................................................................154
Two to Tango and More to Line Dance: A Dialogical Spin .................................................156
Synopsis and Look Ahead ....................................................................................................159
CHAPTER 7: ON DIALOGICS ..................................................................................................162
Postmodern Uncertainties about Method ..........................................................................163
Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogics .............................................................................................165
Dialogical Method ..............................................................................................................168
Knowledge and Method ................................................................................................175
Dialog as Method ..........................................................................................................177
Synopsis and Look Ahead ....................................................................................................178
PART FOUR: THE INQUIRY ...................................................................................................181
CHAPTER 8: THE WRITER DIALOGS ....................................................................................182
Weaving the Written Dialogs ..............................................................................................182
Sheila Bender ......................................................................................................................183
Susan Bono ..........................................................................................................................208
Diane Leon‐Ferdico .............................................................................................................232
Brian Doyle ..........................................................................................................................260
Don Edgers ..........................................................................................................................277
Mridu Khullar ......................................................................................................................298
Charles Markee ...................................................................................................................306
Sue William Silverman .........................................................................................................329
Jack Swenson ......................................................................................................................355
Summary and Look Ahead ..................................................................................................373
CHAPTER 9: RESPONSIVE DISCUSSION OF THEMES ......................................................374
Chapter Organization ..........................................................................................................374
Sheila Bender ......................................................................................................................375
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................376
Writing Essential and Universal Truths ........................................................................378
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................379
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................380
Comments ......................................................................................................................381
Susan Bono ..........................................................................................................................382
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................383
Writing Essential and Universal Truths ........................................................................385
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................386
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................387
Comments ......................................................................................................................390
Diane Leon‐Ferdico .............................................................................................................390
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................391
Writing from Essential and Universal Truth .................................................................393
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................394
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................395
Comments ......................................................................................................................397
Brian Doyle ..........................................................................................................................398
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................399
Writing from Essential and Universal Truth .................................................................400
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................401
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................401
Comments ......................................................................................................................402
Don Edgers ..........................................................................................................................403
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................404
Writing from Essential and Universal Truth .................................................................405
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................405
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................405
Comments ......................................................................................................................407
Mridu Khullar ......................................................................................................................408
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................409
Writing from Essential and Universal Truth .................................................................410
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................410
Comments ......................................................................................................................410
Charles Markee ...................................................................................................................411
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................411
Writing from Essential and Universal Truth .................................................................413
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................414
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................415
Comments ......................................................................................................................415
Sue William Silverman .........................................................................................................417
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................419
Writing from Essential and Universal Truth .................................................................421
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................422
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................423
Comments ......................................................................................................................426
Jack Swenson ......................................................................................................................426
Writing from Within ......................................................................................................428
Writing from Essential and Universal Truth .................................................................429
Transferability of Truth through Representation ...........................................................430
Writing from Dialog ......................................................................................................430
Comments ......................................................................................................................431
Summation and Look Ahead ..............................................................................................432
CHAPTER 10: REFLECTIONS & REGRETS ...........................................................................434
(THINGS LEARNED ALONG THE WAY) ..............................................................................434
Reflections ...........................................................................................................................435
Practical Methodological Issues and Limitations ..........................................................435
Dialogical Intentions .....................................................................................................437The
Scholar/Practitioner Divide ....................................................................................440
Epistemological & Methodological Difficulties ...........................................................442
So, what does it all mean? .............................................................................................445
Regrets ................................................................................................................................447
―Pushing too hard‖ as a par cipant. ..............................................................................447
Monological Finalization ...............................................................................................448
Polyvocality and heteroglossia ......................................................................................449 A
―not‐knowing‖ stance ................................................................................................450
Summation and Look Ahead ...............................................................................................451
CHAPTER 11: PARTING WORDS ...........................................................................................452
Dead Man Writing ...............................................................................................................453
Luminous Exceptions to the Encapsulated Experience .......................................................454
Being Written While Writing ...............................................................................................455
Writing as a Transformative Experience .............................................................................456
What Now? .........................................................................................................................462
APPENDIX A: INFORMED CONSENT FORM .......................................................................465
APPENDIX B: INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH .........................................................470
APPENDIX D: INTRODUCTION TO THE DIALOGS ............................................................475
APPENDIX E: INTERVIEW BY SHEILA BENDER ..............................................................477
LIST OF REFERENCES .............................................................................................................501
ENDNOTES ...............................................................................................................................519