Here Christine presents her book to a group of French nobles. Miniature from the Harley manuscript.See our web-sitehttp://eserve.org.uk/pizan/otea-2.html

Where is the narrator standing?

Loceme – space in text

Concarneau by Signac

The Old Walled Island in Concarneau today

known as La Ville-Close

Le Bac = the little ferry

The Yellow Dog & Maigret

In March this year, after long looks at the methodologies of three key researchers: • John Caughey, • Kathy Charmaz, • Catherine Riessman, I took the work into the field.

White Sands

Identity Change through Reading and Holiday-making

“I was like that”

"These things happened to

me”

“I am like this”

Transformation

Identity Change through Reading and Holiday-making

"These things happened to

me”

Transformation

• The book• The buildings• The beach

Trying to link leisure reading with holidaymaking

Briefing the 6 Case Participants

Antonio keeps a publicTravel journal or web-logUsing Google Bloggerand my previous Research findingson the anatomyof Travel Writing

5 others use auto-ethnographyLinks to own identity. Sounds, smells, tastes thatevoke memory and pleasure. Identification withcharacters in the detective novel.

What should the respondent write?

• Move from respondent to case participant• Move from travel writing to auto-ethnography - so a new way of (i) eliciting and (ii) conceptualising the knowledge introducedWho has done auto-ethnography in tourism and leisure studies?Only one research academic so far

Open Gerund Coding after Charmaz (2006) -> leads to new Grounded Theory ie grounded in data

Memo-Writing (Charmaz 2006) stageis critical after gerund coding

 

BOX ANT.1   MEMO IN-PROGRESS – USING QUOTES FROM THE NOVEL FOR THE REAL WORLD  

Using Language from the Fictional World to Describe and Predict the RealLacan splits the real from the imaginary and introduces the symbolic order for  language.    The  participant  already  displays  cultural  capital  in  quoting other authors but in the first diary entry uses a quote from the novel under study to shape the holiday with a weather description.  '[…]  in  1959–1960,  a  fundamental  reorienting  shift  arguably  occurred  in Lacan's  thinking—Lacan  fairly  can  be  portrayed  as  likewise  structuralizing Freudian psychoanalysis. He did so under the banner of a “return to Freud” according  to which, as his most  famous dictum has  it, “the unconscious  is structured like a language” (l'inconscient est structuré comme un langage).' (Johnston 2014)  

Written Memos (after Charmaz 2006, 73)

Conclusion: Where does the text make the reader stand?

Ask the World

• Which novel has made you want to visit a place?• Social Media gave access to 347,000

respondents. Mainly USA, India & UK on G+.• Results: 1. A Tag-Cloud PTO…• And surprising currency…

Shakespeare’s Birthplace

50% of the books mentioned are published from 1980 onwards. And, quite a shock, the nineteenth century only accounts for 4 mentions. Nearly a third of the books are twenty-first century.

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A huge ‘merci beaucoup’ to my case participants- both in Cannes and in Concarneau

I cannot say who you are but you know!

Tourism Knowledge – where does the little ferrydepart from on the walled island of the old town?