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Publication details [#49487]

Woodstock, Louise. 2006. All About Me, I Mean, You: The Trouble with Narrative Authority in Self-Help Literature. The Communication Review 9 (4) : 321–346.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
authority | literature | narrative | storytelling
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that self-help books occlude the values of selfhood and storytelling via the cultivation of narrative authority.