Introduction - Narrative, Memory & Everyday Life

Abstract

This book is a collection of some of the papers presented at the fourth one-day conference hosted by the Narrative and Memory Research Group at the University of Huddersfield in 2004. As has become traditional, the conference was held in April and the theme for that conference was “Narrative, Memory and Everyday Life”. The Narrative and Memory Research Group was initially set up to facilitate work and to acknowledge a relatively broad spectrum of approaches to narrative theory and research. We hope that the conference and these papers continues to reflect a commitment to that ideal. The conference in 2004 was attended by around 90 delegates from a range of different countries and occupations and feedback suggests that, as in previous years, the event was well received, informative and useful for the dissemination and development of ideas within the field of narrative