Stories and characters: making sense of social action through narrative

Introduction and conceptual framework

George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Metaphors we live by[1]
Harvey Sacks, Doing being ordinary
Gail Jefferson, “At first I thought”. A normalizing device for extraordinary events[2]
C. Wright Mills, Situated actions and vocabularies of motive[3]

Interaction across professional boundaries

Anton Pavlovici Cehov, Conductorul
Liviu Radu, Atac de cord
Andrei Panțu, Fast food[4]

Interaction across gender boundaries

Anton Pavlovici Cehov, Fiica Albionului
Milan Kundera, Falsul autostop

Interaction across kinds of people

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis[5]
Franz Kafka, Letter to my father
Brain Pickings, Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father[6]
Neil Gaiman, A study in emerald[7]

Interaction across kinds of worlds

David Foster Wallace, The Depressed Person[8]
Allie Brosch, Adventures in Depression[9]
Allie Brosch, Depression part two[10]

[1] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers/Lakoff_Johnson.pdf

[2] http://www.liso.ucsb.edu/liso_archives/Jefferson/atfirst.pdf

[3] http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/bib/texts/millsc0wr40situacti.pdf

[4] http://www.revistadepovestiri.ro/fast-food/

[5] http://www.gcit.org/ourpages/auto/2014/12/17/63704557/the-metamorphosis-text.pdf

[6] https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/05/franz-kafka-letter-father

[7] http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf

[8] http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-01-0059425.pdf

[9] http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ro/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html

[10] http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ro/2013/05/depression-part-two.html