Baker, Jedediah (2008) Help! I need somebody (not just anybody): the folktale's helper in personal experience narratives of recovering alcoholics. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Abstract
This thesis explores the personal experience narratives of nine recovering alcoholics through the lens of folktale scholarship. Using Propp's structuralist model developed for folktales, I analyze several narratives and examine the role of the helper in both the Märchen and the turning-point personal experience narrative. I explore the role Alcoholics Anonymous plays in the recovery of its members and the use of the personal experience narrative as therapy and a catalyst for healing.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| URI: | http://research.library.mun.ca/id/eprint/8811 |
| Item ID: | 8811 |
| Additional Information: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves109-112) |
| Department(s): | Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of > Folklore |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Date Type: | Submission |
| Geographic Location: | United States--Vermont |
| Library of Congress Subject Heading: | Recovering alcoholics--Vermont; Tales--Structural analysis |
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