Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations

by Pelias,Ronald J

• ISBN13: 9781598746419
• ISBN10: 1598746413
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ronald J Pelias explores leaning as a metaphor for analyzing interpersonal interaction. Bodies leaning toward one another are engaged, developing the potential for long-lasting, meaningful relationships. But this ideal is not often realized. Pelias makes use of a wide variety of tools such as personal narrative, autoethnography, poetic inquiry and performative writing in his exploration of the physical space of relationships. This deeply personal work is essential for scholars and students of qualitative research and autoethnography.

Table of Contents

Preface: Leaning Into a Beginning	p. 9
Languaging Relationships	p. 17
Some Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Claims for Communication	p. 19
Relational Language: A Poetic Sense-Making	p. 23
Struggling for Speech	p. 37
Relational Associations	p. 43
Stephen Dunn and the Poetics of Living	p. 55
Listening to Myself and Others	p. 61
Self-Portrait: Standing on a Nail	p. 63
Reading Barthes as a Lover	p. 69
Walking and Writing with Laurel Richardson: A Story in Poems	p. 79
Three Tales of Understanding	p. 92
Watching Men	p. 105
Making My Masculine Body Behave	p. 107
Jarheads, Girly Men, and the Pleasures of Violence	p. 118
A Personal History of Lust on Bourbon Street	p. 134
Holding Friends and Lovers	p. 147
The Pull and Push of Friendship	p. 149
Evidence of Love	p. 158
Relational Development and Deterioration: Some More of the Story	p. 167
Holding Mimi	p. 181
Carrying Family	p. 185
Family Lessons	p. 187
Stories We Do and Do Not Tell	p. 197
Remains	p. 203
Loss	p. 214
Afterword: Leaning Into a Way of Being	p. 227
References	p. 231
Index	p. 236
About the Author	p. 239
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